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The people in Jerusalem and their leaders didn't recognize Jesus. By condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
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Even though they didn't find a single legal basis for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
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When they finished doing everything that had been written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.
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But God raised him from the dead!
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He appeared over many days to those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to the people.
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“We proclaim to you the good news. What God promised to our ancestors,
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he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it was written in the second psalm, You are my son; today I have become your father.
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“God raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be subjected to death's decay. Therefore, God said, I will give to you the holy and firm promises I made to David.
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In another place it is said, You will not let your holy one experience death's decay.
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David served God's purpose in his own generation, then he died and was buried with his ancestors. He experienced death's decay,
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but the one whom God has raised up didn't experience death's decay.