Acts 2:29 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:29

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day.

KJV

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

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Commentary

1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

Having set forth the testimony of David, he adds "men and brethren." When he intends to say something great, he preliminarily employs this expression to encourage and conciliate them. But where there was nothing that could be harmful, he speaks with great moderation. If he …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Men and brethren - This passage of the Psalms Peter now proves could not relate to David, but must have reference to the Messiah. He begins his argument in a respectful manner, addressing them as his brethren, though they had just charged him and the others with intoxication. Christians should use the usual respectful forms of salutation, whatever contempt and reproaches they may meet with from opposers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Psalm is then affirmed to have had its only proper fulfilment in JESUS, of whose resurrection and ascension they were witnesses, while the glorious effusion of the Spirit by the hand of the ascended One, setting an infallible seal upon all, was even then witnessed by the thousands who stood listening to Him.

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἄνδρες	Andres	Men	G435 →
ἀδελφοί,	adelphoi	brothers,	G80 →
ἐξὸν	exon	it is permitted [me]	G1832 →
εἰπεῖν	eipein	to speak	G2036 →
μετὰ	meta	with	G3326 →
παρρησίας	parrēsias	freedom	G3954 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πατριάρχου	patriarchou	patriarch	G3966 →
Δαυὶδ	Dauid	David	G1138 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
καὶ	kai	both	G2532 →
ἐτελεύτησεν	eteleutēsen	he died	G5053 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐτάφη	etaphē	was buried	G2290 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μνῆμα	mnēma	tomb	G3418 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
ἔστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
ἡμῖν	hēmin	us	G3165 →
ἄχρι	achri	unto	G891 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἡμέρας	hēmeras	day	G2250 →
ταύτης.	tautēs	this.	G3778 →

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

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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
Acts 13:36
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 7:12
  And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Kings 2:10
  Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
- Acts 13:22
  After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in…
Through
Hebrews 7:4
Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.
leads to
- Genesis 14:20
  and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Through
1 Kings 2:10
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
leads to
- Acts 13:36
  For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- 1 Kings 11:43
  And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 29:28
  He died at a ripe old age, full of years, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 1:21
  Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

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