King James Version
Acts 18:28 in the King James Version says “For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Christ: or, is ...” — study this verse from Acts chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Christ: or, is the Christ”
Acts 18:28 · KJV
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Christ: or, is the Christ
KJV Study — Public Domain
“he mightily”
G2159in a well-strung manner, i.e., (figuratively) intensely (in a good sense, cogently; in a bad one, fiercely)
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“the scriptures”
G1124a document, i.e., holy writ (or its contents or a statement in it)
“that Jesus”
G2424jesus (i.e., jehoshua), the name of our lord and two (three) other israelites
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