Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly,
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;
- BSB God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—
- 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 through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- 2 Cor 4:14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
- Rom 14:9For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
- Rom 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
- Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- 1 Cor 15:12–20Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- Matt 28:1–2Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
- Rom 4:24–25but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Rom 6:4–11We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
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