Acts 2:27
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.
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In Context
28You have shown me the path to life, you will fill me with gladness in your presence.”
Cross References
Psalms 86:13For great is your love towards me, from the depths of Sheol you have saved me.
Psalms 116:3About me were snares of death, the anguish of Sheol was upon me: distress and sorrow were mine.
Matthew 11:23And you, Capernaum! Will you exalt yourself to heaven? You will be flung down to Hades! For, if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been standing to this day.
Luke 1:35‘The Holy Spirit will descend on you,’ answered the angel, ‘and the Power of the Most High will overshadow you; and therefore the child will be called “holy,” and “Son of God.”
Luke 16:23In Hades he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.
Matthew Henry on Acts 2:15-37
Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and… Read the whole commentary →