Acts 2:34 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:34

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

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Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

KJV

For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

HOMILY 36 ON PSALM 109 (110), (pp. 270-279) (420)

The Savior has revealed the meaning of these words in the Gospel when He asked: 'If the Christ is the Son of David, how then does David in the Spirit call him Lord? (Mt. 22:43)' The Lord was interrogating the Pharisees because they were acknowledging Christ simply as the son of David.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For David is not ascended into the heavens,.... In his body, that being still in the grave, in his sepulchre, which remained to that day, though in his soul he was ascended to heaven; his Spirit had returned to God that gave it, and was among the spirits of just men made perfect: but he saith himself, in Psa 110:1 "the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand"; see Gill on Mat 22:44.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

David is not ascended - Consequently, he has not sent forth this extraordinary gift, but it comes from his Lord, of whom he said, The Lord said unto my Lord, etc. See the note on these words, Mat 22:44 (note).

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

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐ	ou	Not	G3756 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
Δαυὶδ	Dauid	David	G1138 →
ἀνέβη	anebē	ascended	G305 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
οὐρανούς,	ouranous	heavens,	G3772 →
λέγει	legei	he says	G3004 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
αὐτός·	autos	himself:	G846 →
εἶπεν	eipen	Said	G2036 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
κυρίῳ	kuriō	Lord	G2962 →
μου·	mou	of me;	G3165 →
κάθου	kathou	do sit	G2521 →
ἐκ	ek	at	G1537 →
δεξιῶν	dexiōn	[the] right hand	G1188 →
μου,	mou	of Me,	G3165 →

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 110:1
The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
leads to
- Hebrews 10:12–13
  But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25
  For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 1:13
  Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 20:42–43
  For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
- Mark 12:35–37
  While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?
Through
Hebrews 1:13
Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
leads to
- Psalms 110:1
  The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 12:36
  Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
Through
Ephesians 1:22
And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
leads to
- Colossians 1:18
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

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