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30 He was a prophet and knew something that God had said. God had promised David that someone from his own family would sit on David’s throne as king.[a] 31 David knew this before it happened. That is why he said this about that future king:

‘He was not left in the place of death.
    His body did not rot in the grave.’

David was talking about the Messiah rising from death. 32 So Jesus is the one God raised from death. We are all witnesses of this. We saw him.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:30 God had promised … as king See 2 Sam. 7:12, 13 and Ps. 132:11.

30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne.(A) 31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.(B) 32 God has raised this Jesus to life,(C) and we are all witnesses(D) of it.

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