25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should ^bsuffer these things and enter into his ^cglory?” 27 And beginning with ^dMoses and all the ^eProphets, he interpreted to them ^fin all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that ^khis ^lChrist would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

22 To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but ^twhat the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: 23 that the Christ must suffer and that, by being ^uthe first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim ^vlight both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

3 For I ^wdelivered to you as of first importance ^xwhat I also received: that ^yChrist died for our sins ^zin accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was ^aburied, that he was raised on the ^bthird day in accordance with the Scriptures,

10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours ^ssearched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time¹ the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he ^tpredicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent ^uglories.