Acts 5:30

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

God

Acts 3:13

Acts 22:14

Luke 1:55

Ye slew

General references

Luke 12:11

Luke 24:20

Acts 13:30

Bible References

God

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his Servant Jesus--him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.

Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips;

(As he promised to our forefathers) For Abraham and his race for ever."

Ye slew

Men of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed among you through him, as you know full well--

Let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead--it is, I say, by his Name that this man stands here before you lame no longer.

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!

They found no ground at all for putting him to death, and yet demanded his execution from Pilate;

Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for Scripture says--'Cursed is any one who is hanged on a tree.'

And he 'himself carried our sins' in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. 'His bruising was your healing.'

General references

Whenever they take you before the Synagogue Courts or the magistrates or other authorities, do not be anxious as to how you will defend yourselves, or what your defense will be, or what you will say;

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.

But God raised him from the dead;