⁴² And every day in the temple and at home^[a] they did not cease to teach and proclaim Jesus as the Messiah.^[b](A)

⁴⁶ Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home^[a] and ate their food with glad and generous^[b] hearts,^(A)

² proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage with the utmost patience in teaching.^(A)

²⁰ I did not shrink from doing anything helpful, proclaiming the message to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house,^(A)

³⁵ Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.^(A)

³⁷ Every day he was teaching in the temple, and at night he would go out and spend the night on the Mount of Olives, as it was called.^(A)

³ explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah^[a] to suffer and to rise from the dead and saying, “This is the Messiah,^[b] Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”^(A)

²⁰ and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”

²⁰ That is not the way you learned Christ! ²¹ For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus,

¹⁵ hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

The Power of the Gospel

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes,^[a] for the Jew first and also for the Greek.^(A)