³ explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer^(A) and rise from the dead.^(B) “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,”^(C) he said.

²² But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen^(A)— ²³ that the Messiah would suffer^(B) and, as the first to rise from the dead,^(C) would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”^(D)

¹⁰ In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists,^(A) should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.^(B)

²⁶ Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”^{(A) 27} And beginning with Moses^(B) and all the Prophets,^(C) he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.^(D)