Acts 13:29

29 And when they had carried out all the things that were written about him, they took [him] down from the tree [and] placed [him] in a tomb.

Acts 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.

Acts 13:29 In-Context

27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, [because they] did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled [them] [by] condemning [him].

28 And [although they] found no charge [worthy] of death, they asked Pilate [that] he be executed.

29 And when they had carried out all the things that were written about him, they took [him] down from the tree [and] placed [him] in a tomb.

30 But God raised him from the dead,

31 who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem--who are now his witnesses to the people.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [b] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("took ... down") has been translated as a finite verb
• [c] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation