“Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.”
Explaining and proving (dianoigō, diamarturomai) that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead — and saying, 'This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah' — Luke employs two verbs suggesting both hermeneutical opening (dianoigō, opening the scriptures) and testimonial weight (diamarturomai, bearing witness solemnly). The kerygma's two non-negotiable elements appear: suffering and resurrection.
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