Acts 26:23 MSG/NIV - Online Parallel Bible
| The Message (MSG) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 23 One, the Messiah must die; two, raised from the dead, he would be the first rays of God's daylight shining on people far and near, people both godless and God-fearing." | 23 that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles." |
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