This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
Parallel translations
- WEB This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- KJV This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- BSB God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
- NASB It is this Jesus whom God raised up, a fact to which we are all witnesses.
- NLT “God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this.
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Quick answer
Peter declares that God raised this Jesus, and the apostles are all witnesses. It affirms the resurrection as an eyewitnessed fact.
Overview
The apostles' eyewitness testimony grounds the proclamation of the risen Christ. 'This Jesus,' the crucified one, is the very one God raised. Their witness is the foundation on which the church's gospel rests.
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Cross-references · 10
- Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
- Acts 1:22beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
- 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.
- Luke 24:46–48He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
- Acts 4:33With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
- John 20:26–31After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
- John 15:27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
- Acts 5:31–32God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
- Acts 10:39–41We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
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