Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
Parallel translations
- WEB God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
- BSB God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—
- 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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Quick answer
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 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
- 2 Cor 4:14Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
- Rom 14:9For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
- Rom 1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
- Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- 1 Cor 15:12–20Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- Matt 28:1–2In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
- Rom 4:24–25But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
- Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Rom 6:4–11Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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