Acts 2:28

28 You have shown me the paths of life; your presence will fill me with happiness.

Acts 2:28 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 2:28

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life
That is, thou hast raised me from the dead. When God raised Christ from the dead, he showed him, or made him to know experimentally the way of life, or the way of the resurrection from death to life; and this path of life, or of the resurrection to an immortal and eternal life, was first shown to Christ, who is the first fruits of them that slept, and the first begotten from the dead.

Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance;
or glorious presence, in which is fulness of joy; which Christ, as man, is in, and fully possessed of, being exalted at the right hand of God, and crowned with glory and honour, and has all the joy that was set before him in his sufferings and death.

Acts 2:28 In-Context

26 Therefore, my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover, my body will live in hope,
27 because you won't abandon me to the grave, nor permit your holy one to experience decay.
28 You have shown me the paths of life; your presence will fill me with happiness.
29 “Brothers and sisters, I can speak confidently about the patriarch David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this very day.
30 Because he was a prophet, he knew that God promised him with a solemn pledge to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

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