JEWELS FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL - COMPARE ACTS 2:23-26 TO ACTS 13:26-39

JEWELS FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL

Explore the Bible Curriculum – Winter 2017-18

Session 1, Page 14

Compare Acts 2:23-36

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Acts 13:26-39

We have highlighted similar statements in yellow and those things less similar in fuchsia.  Our comments are found below the passages.

Acts 2:23-36 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Acts 13:26-39 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Peter spoke to Jews from various places who were in Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost right after the Holy Spirit had come upon the believers and enabled them to be understood by everyone who spoke other languages. Paul spoke to Jews in a synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia. Both taught that the Jewish leaders had turned Jesus over to be crucified by those who did not believe in God but that this was prophesied, or as Peter put it “with God’s full knowledge.” They both taught that, as prophesied by David, the Messiah’s body did not see corruption because God raised Him from the dead. Peter uses the first-person plural “we” when speaking of being witnesses of the resurrected Christ. Paul, who saw Jesus much later than the others, stated “And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people,” speaking of the apostles and other disciples who had followed Jesus during his ministry on earth. Peter accuses the Jews dwelling in Jerusalem of being complicit in Jesus’s death. Paul tells the Jews in Antioch of Pisidia that the message of salvation is sent to them. Peter emphasized that Jesus was Lord and Christ (Messiah or Anointed One). Paul held Jesus up as the One who preached forgiveness of sins.