Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered, etc.—His preaching, it seems, was chiefly expository, and designed to establish from the Old Testament Scriptures (1) that the predicted Messiah was to be a suffering and dying, and therefore a rising, Messiah; (2) that this Messiah was none other than Jesus of Nazareth.
Paul, as his manner was—always to begin with the Jews.
went in unto them—In writing to the converts but a few months after this, he reminds them of the courage and superiority to indignity, for the Gospel's sake, which this required after the shameful treatment he had so lately experienced at Philippi (I Thessalonians 2:2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 17:3:
Psalms 119:130
Acts 17:1
Acts 17:11
Acts 19:8-10
1 Thessalonians 4:14
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