Acts Chapter 2 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 2:24

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
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BBE Acts 2:24

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
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DARBY Acts 2:24

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
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KJV Acts 2:24

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
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WBT Acts 2:24


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WEB Acts 2:24

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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YLT Acts 2:24

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,
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Acts 2 : 24 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Raised for hath raised, A.V.; pangs for pains, A.V. Pangs. St. Luke follows the LXX., who render the מָוֶת or חֶבְלֵי of Psalm 18:5, 6; Psalm 116:3, by ὠδῖνες θανάτου, as if the Hebrew word were חֵבֶל, the pains or pangs of a woman in childbirth, whereas it really is חֶבֶל, a cord, as it is rendered in the margin of Psalm 18:5, meaning the snare of the fowler. The variation is very similar to that of the "fruit of our lips" in Hebrews 13:15, compared with the "calves of our lips" of Hosea 14:2. It is manifest that "loosed" applies better to cords than to pangs. It was not possible. Why, not possible? 1. Because of the union of the Godhead and manhood in the one Person of Christ. 2. Because of God's character, which makes it impossible that one who trusts in him should be forsaken, or that God's Holy One should see corruption. 3. Because the Scripture, which cannot be broken, declared the resurrection of Christ.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Whom God hath raised up.--It is probable enough that some rumours of the Resurrection had found their way among the people, and had been met by the counter-statement of which we read in Matthew 28:11-15; but this was the first public witness, borne by one who was ready to seal his testimony with his blood, to the stupendous fact.Having loosed the pains of death.--The word for "pains" is the same as that for "sorrows" in Matthew 24:8 : literally, travail-pangs. The phrase was not uncommon in the LXX. version, but was apparently a mistranslation of the Hebrew for "cords," or "bands," of death. If we take the Greek word in its full meaning, the Resurrection is thought of as a new birth as from the womb of the grave.Because it was not possible. . . .--The moral impossibility was, we may say, two-fold. The work of the Son of Man could not have ended in a failure and death which would have given the lie to all that He had asserted of Himself. Its issue could not run counter to the prophecies which had implied with more or less clearness a victory over death. The latter, as the sequel shows, was the thought prominent in St. Peter's mind.