Acts 2:24 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

KJV

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

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Commentary

1 voice

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Discourses Against the Arians 1.44 (373)

Accordingly what is here said, `Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him,' answers to Peter's words in the Acts, `Whom God raised up, having loosed the bonds of death, because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.' For as Paul has written, `Since being in form of God He became man, and humbled Himself unto death, therefore God also hath highly exalted Him,' so also Peter says, `Since, being God, He became man, and signs and wonders proved Him to beholders to be God, therefore it was not possible that He should be holden of death.'

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Having loosed the pains of death - The word properly means, the pains of a woman in travail. As it was not possible that he should be held under it - Because the Scripture must needs be fulfilled.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2712: “Bonds Which Could Not Hold” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1901)

PETER is here speaking of the risen Christ, whom God had raised up, "having loosed the pains of death." So it is clear that whatever those pains were, our blessed Lord Jesus Christ felt them—He felt them much more than His followers do, for, in His death-agony, He was left without the sustaining help of God and the light of His Father's Countenance was hidden from Him. His death was a bitter one, indeed! He took the deepest draughts of wormwood and gall, for He had to "taste death for every man," whatever that mysterious expression may mean.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὃν	hon	whom	G3739 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ἀνέστησεν	anestēsen	raised up	G450 →
λύσας	lusas	having loosed	G3089 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ὠδῖνας	ōdinas	agony	G5604 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θανάτου,	thanatou	of death,	G2288 →
καθότι	kathoti	inasmuch as	G2530 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἦν	ēn	it was	G1510 →
δυνατὸν	dunaton	possible	G1415 →
κρατεῖσθαι	krateisthai	[for] to be held	G2902 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
ὑπ᾽	hup᾽	by	G5259 →
αὐτοῦ.¶	autou	it.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:14
  knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 1:19–20
  and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 6:4–5
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
- 2 Corinthians 4:11
  For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
- Romans 8:9
  You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong…
Through
Colossians 2:12
And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
leads to
- Romans 6:3–5
  Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
- Galatians 3:27
  For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- 1 Peter 3:21
  And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,