psalms about the righteous person who suffers unjustly and is afterwards vindicated by God (Pss 16; 17; 22). Luke stresses that the events surrounding Jesus’s life, from conception to ascension, are part of the plan and purpose of God according to the Jewish Scriptures. In the discussion on the nature of the resurrection body in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul prefaces his arguments by referring to the gospel’s conformity to the Old Testament Scriptures: “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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