Acts 13:30
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But God raised Him from the dead,
- KJV
- But God raised him from the dead:
- WEB
- But God raised him from the dead,
- ASV
- But God raised him from the dead:
- DARBY
- but God raised him from among [the] dead,
- BLB
- But God raised Him out from the dead,
- ÅB
- Men Gud oppvakte ham fra de døde,
- OTB
- Men Gud reiste Ham opp fra de døde
- B1930
- Men Gud opvakte ham fra de døde,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Read in contextActs 17:31
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Read in contextMatthew 28:6
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Read in contextActs 4:10
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Read in contextActs 5:30–31
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Read in contextJohn 10:17
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Read in contextActs 10:40
Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
Read in contextActs 3:13
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
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