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.
Opening and alleging, х paratithemenos (G3908)] - 'putting before' or 'representing' to them this great truth, as the sum of all the Scriptures quoted and commented on,
That Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead, х ton (G3588) Christon (G5547) edei (G1163) pathein (G3958) kai (G2532) anasteenai (G450)] - 'that it behoved the Christ (the promised Messiah) to suffer and rise from the dead.'
And that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ - or, 'that this is the Christ, (even) Jesus whom I preach unto you.' His preaching, it seems, was chiefly expository, and designed to establish from the Old Testament Scriptures, first, that the predicted Messiah was to be a suffering and dying, and therefore a rising Messiah; and next, that this Messiah was none other than Jesus of Nazareth.