Acts 2:24

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Summary

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.

Loosed

Psalm 116:3

Because

General references

Acts 13:30

Bible References

Loosed

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,
and the torments of Sheol overcame me;
I encountered trouble and sorrow.

Because

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke in advance about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

He will destroy death forever.
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face
and remove His people’s disgrace
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely.

When You make Him a restitution offering,
He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,
and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.
I will redeem them from death.
Death, where are your barbs?
Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day,

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

General references

But God raised Him from the dead,