Acts 2:32 (WEB)
This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Acts 2:32–33 (KJV)
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Key words
- ἀνέστησενanestēsen · Greek
- 'raised up' — the resurrection.
- τῇ δεξιᾷ τοῦ θεοῦ ὑψωθείςtē dexia tou theou hypsōtheis · Greek
- 'by the right hand of God exalted' — enthroned at God's right hand, as Joseph was set at Pharaoh's (Genesis 41:40).
Why it matters
Peter proclaims that the crucified Jesus has been raised and exalted to God's right hand. Pitre completes the Joseph–Jesus parallel: Joseph, cast down and then exalted to Pharaoh's right hand, saved the world with bread; Jesus, crucified and then exalted, feeds the world with the Bread of Life and is at first unrecognised when he reveals himself. Since Jesus is the new Joseph, his mother is the New Rachel.
Fathers and councils · 4
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 30–37.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
“(Acts 2:32) And thus the other Apostles, And we are witnesses of these things, and wrote these things.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“…follow me;” and dare not unite themselves to those dwelling together, among whom no one saith that any thing is his own, but all things are unto them common; do we think that there is no addition of fruitfulness unto the virgins of God, when they do this? or that the virgins of God are without any fruit, although…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 44, 4, 32
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Tertullian
“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 21:24–25 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 21:24–25 (Catena Aurea).