Acts 2:24-38

²⁴But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold on him.

²⁵Indeed he was the one David was referring to when he said — ‘I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, so that I should not be disquieted.

²⁶Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope;

²⁷For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.

²⁸You have shown me the path to life, You will fill me with gladness in your presence.’

²⁹Friends, I can speak to you the more confidently about the patriarch David, because he is dead and buried, and his tomb is here among us to this very day.

³⁰David, then, prophet as he was, knowing that God had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants on his throne, looked into the future,

³¹and referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that he had not been abandoned to Hades, nor had his body undergone corruption.

³²It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.

³³And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

³⁴It was not David who went up into heaven; for he himself says — ‘The Lord said to my master, “Sit on my right hand,

³⁵Until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.”’

³⁶So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this Jesus whom you crucified.”

³⁷When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Friends, what can we do?”

³⁸“Repent,” answered Peter, “and be baptized every one of you in the faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.