Acts 2:24 “But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of deat…”

Acts 2:24

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.

Darby Translation

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;

Young's Literal Translation

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

Bible in Basic English

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

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Cross references

“God”

1 Corinthians 6:14 Acts 2:32 1 Peter 1:21 Romans 8:11 Colossians 2:12 Romans 6:4

1 Corinthians 6:14 · BSB

By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

Acts 2:32 · BSB

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

1 Peter 1:21 · BSB

Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

Romans 8:11 · BSB

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 Spirit, who lives in you.

Colossians 2:12 · BSB

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.

Romans 6:4 · BSB

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 life.

“loosed”

Psalm 116:16 Psalm 116:3 Psalm 116:4

Psalm 116:16 · BSB

Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

Psalm 116:3 · BSB

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 116:4 · BSB

Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”

“because”

Revelation 1:18 Isaiah 26:19 Isaiah 25:8 John 12:39 Isaiah 53:10 Hosea 13:14

Revelation 1:18 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 26:19 · BSB

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

Isaiah 25:8 · BSB

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

John 12:39 · BSB

For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:

Isaiah 53:10 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Hosea 13:14 · BSB

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Also

Romans 10:9 Acts 13:37 John 20:9 Acts 13:33–34 Acts 4:10 1 Corinthians 15:15

Romans 10:9 · BSB

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Acts 13:37 · BSB

But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

John 20:9 · BSB

For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

Acts 13:33–34 · BSB

He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’

Acts 4:10 · BSB

then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.

1 Corinthians 15:15 · BSB

In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

25David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

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