affirmed that he was teaching ‘nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass; that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles’ (Acts 26:22, 23). Similarly, at the beginning of his letter to the Romans he had described God’s gospel to which he was set apart as what God had ‘promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures’ (Rom. 1:2; cf. 3:21). So then, the two reasons why