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and when they had carried out everything which had been written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.
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"But God raised Him from the dead.
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And, after a few days, He appeared to the people who had gone up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem and are now witnesses concerning Him to the Jews.
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And we bring you the Good News about the promise made to our forefathers,
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that God has amply fulfilled it to our children in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, `Thou art My Son: to-day I have become Thy Father.'
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And as to His having raised Him from among the dead, never again to be in the position of one soon to return to decay, He speaks thus: `I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'
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Because in another Psalm also He says, `Thou wilt not give up Thy Holy One to undergo decay.'
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For David, after having been useful to his own generation in accordance with God's purpose, did fall asleep, was gathered to his forefathers, and did undergo decay.
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But He whom God raised to life underwent no decay.
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"Understand therefore, brethren, that through this Jesus forgiveness of sins is announced to you;
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and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.