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 wound around me and the anguish of Sheol came upon me; I encountered distress and sorrow.

Because

"Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through the voice of David about Judas, who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus,

he has swallowed up death forever! Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and he will take away the disgrace of his people from the entire earth." for the LORD has spoken.

"But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

"Yet the LORD was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will triumph in his hand.

"From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.

He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

the living one. I was dead but look! I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of Death and Hades.

General references

But God raised him from the dead,