Acts 5:30

30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.

Acts 5:30 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
English Standard Version (ESV)
30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
New Living Translation (NLT)
30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead after you killed him by hanging him on a cross.
The Message Bible (MSG)
30 The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, the One you killed by hanging him on a cross.
American Standard Version (ASV)
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
30 You murdered Jesus by hanging him on a cross. But the God of our ancestors brought him back to life.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
30 You had Jesus killed by nailing him to a cross. But the God of our people raised Jesus from the dead.

Acts 5:30 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus
Not from the dead, though this was true; but called him to the work and office of a Saviour, inverted him with that office, and sent him to perform that work; so that this refers rather to the incarnation of Christ, in consequence of the ancient council and covenant of grace: and this the apostles attribute to God the Father, under the character of "the God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob", as in ( Acts 3:13 ) , to show that they did not bring in and worship any strange God; nor introduce any novel doctrine; or speak of any other Saviour or Redeemer, than he whom the God of their fathers had appointed, and who was made known to them, whom they looked for and believed in, and were justified and saved by:

whom ye slew and hanged on a tree;
this is said in defence of themselves, being charged that they intended to bring this man's blood upon them; they therefore insist upon it that they had slain Jesus whom God raised up, inasmuch as they had condemned him to death in their sanhedrim, and had urged and importuned Pilate to crucify him, and had imprecated his blood upon them and on their children; and were not content to put him to any kind of death, but insisted on his being crucified, or hanged on a tree; that is, stretched out upon the cross, which was both a painful and shameful death, to which they were manifestly accessary, and therefore justly charged with it.

Acts 5:30 In-Context

28 “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”
29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!
30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.
31 God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins.
32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Acts 3:13
  • 2. S Acts 2:24
  • 3. Acts 10:39; Acts 13:29; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24
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