Acts 2:31 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

KJV

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

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Commentary

1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

"To raise up Christ in the flesh." He says this because according to His Divinity He has from eternity and always sat together with the Father; and he ascribes everything to the Father, so that the listeners might more easily accept what is being said.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
προϊδὼν	proidōn	Having foreseen	G4308 →
ἐλάλησεν	elalēsen	he spoke	G2980 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ἀναστάσεως	anastaseōs	resurrection	G386 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	Christ	G5547 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὔτε	oute	neither	G3777 →
ἐγκατελείφθη	egkateleiphthē	was He left behind	G1459 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
ᾅδην	hadēn	Hades	G86 →
οὔτε	oute	nor	G3777 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh	G4561 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
εἶδεν	eiden	saw	G1492 →
διαφθοράν.	diaphthoran	decay.	G1312 →

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
Psalms 16:10
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
leads to
- Acts 2:27–31
  because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 1:18
  the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 13:35–38
  So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’
- Psalms 49:15
  But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
- Isaiah 14:9
  Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise…
Through
Acts 2:27
because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
leads to
- Psalms 16:10
  For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 20:13
  The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
- John 11:39
  “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

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