Acts 10:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

We are

Whom

General references

Luke 24:48

Bible References

We are

not by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had designated beforehand, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead.

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses.

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

and for many days he appeared to those who had come up to Jerusalem with him from Galilee, and they are now witnesses for him to the people.

just as the original eye-witnesses who became teachers of the message have handed it down to us.

You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.

Whom

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

General references

You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.