September 14, 2025

Part 8

Acts 2:22-24

22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

“It is just this meaning that that Christian proclamation finds in Christ’s death: His incomprehensible fate is for the benefit of the very ones at whose hands he died, and that benefit is in accordance with God’s salvific will for humankind.”