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 became tangled around me. The fear of the grave took hold of me. I experienced pain and agony.

Because

Brothers, the Scripture needed to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who guided those who arrested Jesus.

He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

It was Jehovah's will to allow him to be crushed. Even though Jehovah makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of Jehovah will prosper in his hand.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

He said: It is written that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day.

So if he called them 'god-like ones,' those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,

Isaiah revealed the reason they could not believe:

Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

General references

But God raised him from the dead: