Acts 5 · Verse 30

Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts 5:30, King James Version

Acts 5:30 in other translations

BSBThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
WEBThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
ASVThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
YLTand the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;
DARBYThe God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom ye have slain, having hanged on a cross.
BBEThe God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.
WebsterThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree:

What does Acts 5:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 5:29-30

29-30. Then Peter, &c.--(See on Ac 2:22, and Ac 3:13, &c.).

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 30. Raised up Jesus. This refers to his resurrection.

Hanged on a tree. That is, on the cross, Gal 3:13, 1Pet 2:24; Acts 10:39, 13:29. This is the amount of Peter's defence. He begins with the great principle, (Acts 5:29,) which they could not gainsay, that God ought to be obeyed rather than man. He then proceeds to state that they were convinced that God had raised up Jesus from the dead. And as they had such decisive evidence of that, and were commanded by the authority of the Lord Jesus to be witnesses of that, and had constant evidence that God had done it, they were not at liberty to be silent. They were bound to obey God rather than the sanhedrim, and to make known eerywhere the fact that the Lord Jesus was risen. The remark that God had raised up Jesus, whom they had slain, does not seem to have been made to irritate or to reproach them, but mainly to identify the person that had been raised. It was also a confirmation of the truth and reality of the miracle. Of his death they had no doubt, for they had been at pains to certify it, Jn 19:31-34. It is certain, however, that Peter did not shrink from charging on them their guilt; nor was he at any pains to soften or mitigate the severe charge that they had murdered their own Messiah.

(e) "hanged" Gal 3:13 (*) "tree" "Cross"

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus - It was well to introduce this, that the council might at once see that they preached no strange God; and that he who so highly honored the patriarchs, Moses, and the prophets, had yet more highly honored Jesus Christ in raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand, and proclaiming him as the only giver of salvation and the repentance which leads to it. Whom ye slew - They charge them again with the murder of Christ, as they had done before, Act 4:10-12, where see the notes.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 5:26-33

Many will do an evil thing with daring, yet cannot bear to hear of it afterward, or to have it charged upon them. We cannot expect to be redeemed and healed by Christ, unless we give up ourselves to be ruled by him. Faith takes the Saviour in all his offices, who came, not to save us in our sins, but to save us from our sins. Had Christ been exalted to give dominion to Israel, the chief priests would have welcomed…

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Acts 5:30 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὁhoTheG3588
θεὸςtheosGodG2316
τῶνtōnof theG3588
πατέρωνpaterōnfathersG3962
ἡμῶνhēmōnof usG3165
ἤγειρενēgeirenraised upG1453
ἸησοῦνIēsounJesusG2424
ὃνhonwhomG3739
ὑμεῖςhumeisyou yourselvesG4771
διεχειρίσασθεdiecheirisasthekilledG1315
κρεμάσαντεςkremasanteshaving hanged [Him]G2910
ἐπὶepionG1909
ξύλου·xuloua tree;G3586

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Cross references for Acts 5:30

  • Galatians 3:13

    Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

  • 1 Peter 2:24

    Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

  • Acts 10:39

    And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

  • Acts 13:28-29

    And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

  • Acts 4:10-11

    Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

  • Acts 3:13-15

    The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

  • Acts 2:22-24

    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: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

  • Luke 1:72

    To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

  • Acts 2:32

    This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

  • Acts 3:26

    Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

  • Acts 22:14

    And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

  • Acts 13:33

    God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God.
3:13-15; 22:14; 1Ch 12:17; 29:18; Ezr 7:27; Lu 1:55,72
raised.
3:26; 13:33
ye slew.
2:22-24,32; 4:10,11; 10:39; 13:28; Ga 3:13; 1Pe 2:24

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Context

  • Acts 5:29

    Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

  • Acts 5:30

    The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

  • Acts 5:31

    Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

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Acts 5:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El Dios de nuestros padres levantó á Jesús, al cual vosotros matasteis colgándole en un madero.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Le Dieu de nos pères a ressuscité Jésus que vous avez fait mourir, le pendant au bois.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Der Gott unserer Väter hat Jesum auferweckt, den ihr ermordet habt, indem ihr ihn an ein Holz hängtet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Deus patrum nostrorum suscitavit Jesum, quem vos interemistis, suspendentes in ligno.