Acts 2:22–24
Peter: men without the law killed him, but God raised him up
Study it word by word22Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested by God to you by miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know,
23this man, handed over by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed by nailing him to a cross by the hand of lawless men.
24Him God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
In its context
20The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
21And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
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25For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord before me always, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be shaken.
26Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; and moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
Its words in the original
- ἌνδρεςAndres· man, husband
Man, adult male; with a possessive, "husband".
- ἸσραηλῖταιIsraēlitai· Israelite
Israelite.
- ἀκούσατεakousate· hear, listen
Hear, listen; also heed.
- λόγουςlogous· word
Word, saying, message; also reason, cause, account.
- ἸησοῦνIēsoun· Jesus
Jesus, the Greek form of the Hebrew Yehoshua (Joshua), which means "YHWH saves". It is the name the angel told Joseph to give him (Matthew 1:21).
- ΝαζωραῖονNazōraion· Nazarene
Nazarene: from Nazareth. That is what people called Jesus and, later, his followers.
- ἀποδεδειγμένονapodedeigmenon· show, attest, prove
Show, display; attest, prove before all that someone is who he claims to be; also appoint, proclaim.
- θεοῦtheou· God, god
God. In the plural or in another sense, "gods".
- δυνάμεσιdynamesi· power, mighty work
Power, strength, ability. In the plural, works of power: miracles.
- τέρασιterasi· wonder
Wonder, portent.
- σημείοιςsēmeiois· sign
Sign, a wonder that points to something.
- ἐποίησενepoiēsen· do, make
Do, make, produce.
- μέσῳmesōi· middle
Middle, in the midst.
- οἴδατεoidate· know
Know, understand; also see.
- ὡρισμένῃhōrismenēi· determine, appoint
Determine, appoint, designate; also mark off a boundary.
- βουλῇboulēi· plan, purpose
Plan, purpose, counsel; also a decision.
- προγνώσειprognōsei· foreknowledge
Foreknowledge: what God knows and determines beforehand.
- ἔκδοτονekdoton· handed over
Handed over, delivered into the hands of others.
- χειρὸςcheiros· hand
Hand.
- ἀνόμωνanomōn· lawless
Lawless, wicked; also without the law, not under the law of Moses.
- προσπήξαντεςprospēxantes· fasten, crucify
Fasten to, fix with nails; hence crucify.
- ἀνείλατεaneilate· take away, kill
Take away, do away with; kill. Also take up, adopt.
- ἀνέστησενanestēsen· rise, raise
Get up, stand up; also rise from the dead.
- λύσαςlysas· loose, untie
Untie, loose, set free; break, make void.
- ὠδῖναςōdinas· birth pains
Labor pains.
- θανάτουthanatou· death
Death.
- καθότιkathoti· because, as
Because, since; also according as.
- ἦνēn· be
Be, exist.
- δυνατὸνdynaton· possible, powerful
Possible; also strong, powerful, able.
- κρατεῖσθαιkrateisthai· seize, retain
Take hold of, seize; also retain, keep.