002:022 "Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene,
a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels
and signs which God did among you through Him, as you
yourselves know, Him--
002:023 delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--
you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have
put to death.
002:024 But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes
of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held
fast by death.
002:025 For David says in reference to Him, "`I constantly fixed my
eyes upon the Lord, because He is at my right hand in order
that I may continue unshaken.
002:026 For this reason my heart is glad and my tongue exults.
My body also shall rest in hope.
002:027 For Thou wilt not leave me in the Unseen World forsaken,
nor give up Thy holy One to undergo decay.
002:028 Thou hast made known to me the ways of Life: Thou wilt fill
me with gladness in Thy presence.'
002:029 "As to the patriarch David, I need hardly remind you, brethren,
that he died and was buried, and that we still have his
tomb among us.
002:030 Being a Prophet, however, and knowing that God had solemnly
sworn to him to seat a descendant of his upon his throne,
002:031 with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ,
to the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World,
nor did His body undergo decay.
002:032 This Jesus, God has raised to life--a fact to which all
of us testify.
002:033 "Being therefore lifted high by the mighty hand of God, He has