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Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
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But God raised him from the dead;
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and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
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And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
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this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee.'
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And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke in this way, 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'
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Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'Thou wilt not let thy Holy One see corruption.'
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For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;
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but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
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Let it be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,