Actes 13:29

29 Puis quand ils eurent accompli tout ce qui a été écrit de lui, on l'ôta du bois, et on le mit dans un sépulcre.

Actes 13:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 13:29

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him,
&c.] When they had vilified and reproached him in the most opprobrious manner; buffeted and scourged him, and pierced his hands and his feet, by nailing him to the cross; when they had crucified him between two thieves, and parted his raiment and cast lots on his vesture; when they had pierced his side, and it was sufficiently evident that his life was taken from the earth; all which were written of him in the Psalms and Prophets:

they took him down from the tree;
the cross, on which he was crucified: it may be rendered impersonally, "he was taken down from the tree"; for not the same persons that desired he might be slain, and fulfilled all that was written of him, took him down, but others; though they were some of the rulers, as Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, yet such as did not consent to his death:

and laid him in a sepulchre;
in a new one, in which never man lay; a sepulchre which Joseph had hewed out of a rock for himself, and which was both sealed and guarded.

Actes 13:29 In-Context

27 Car les habitants de Jérusalem et leurs magistrats, l'ayant méconnu, ont accompli, en le condamnant, les paroles des prophètes, qui se lisent chaque jour de sabbat.
28 Et sans avoir aucun motif de le mettre à mort, ils demandèrent à Pilate de le faire mourir.
29 Puis quand ils eurent accompli tout ce qui a été écrit de lui, on l'ôta du bois, et on le mit dans un sépulcre.
30 Mais Dieu l'a ressuscité des morts;
31 Et il a été vu, pendant plusieurs jours, de ceux qui étaient montés avec lui de Galilée à Jérusalem, lesquels sont ses témoins devant le peuple.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.