God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—
Parallel translations
- WEB God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
- KJV Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
- NKJV Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,
- NASB God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He be revealed,
- NLT but God raised him to life on the third day. Then God allowed him to appear,
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God raised Jesus on the third day and caused Him to be seen. The resurrection is God's vindication of His Son.
Overview
Peter declares the resurrection as God's mighty act, reversing the verdict of those who crucified Jesus. That God 'gave him to be revealed' stresses that the risen Christ appeared by God's design. The third-day resurrection is the foundation of the Christian hope and the proof that sins can truly be forgiven through His name.
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- Acts 13:30–31But God raised Him from the dead,
- 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
- Acts 2:24But 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.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- 2 Cor 4:14knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
- Rom 14:9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
- Rom 1:4and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 8:11And 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.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- 1 Cor 15:12–20But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- Matt 28:1–2After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
- Rom 4:24–25but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
- Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- Rom 6:4–11We 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.
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