TSK · Acts 18:5

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.

Sometimes I think,“I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

You yourselves can testify that I said,‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather,‘I have been sent before him.’

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

Timothy Joins Paul and Silas He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,