Paul delivered these words as part of his Sabbath sermon in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia, where he preached Jesus of the seed of David as the promised Saviour and Messiah of prophecy. In that sermon he traced how the Lord had dealt with the Jews from their deliverance from Egyptian bondage onward. He presented Jesus as a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of Israel, through whom Gentiles are recognized as children of God. When the Jews in envy and jealousy contradicted with blasphemy because multitudes of Gentiles assembled on equality with them, Paul and Barnabas turned without hesitation to the Gentiles.
The saying contrasts Jesus with David, for David died and his body underwent decay, but Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, did not undergo bodily decay or corruption. It identifies Jesus as the Holy One promised in the Psalms, so that His resurrection fulfills the promise that God's Holy One would not see corruption. He was raised never to return to corruption.
The saying shows that the Lord will not encourage false theories and a low standard. It calls God's people to seek the Lord most earnestly. It calls them to study the light given in the book of Acts and to humble their own hearts before God.
Paul delivered these words as part of his Sabbath sermon in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia, where he preached Jesus of the seed of David as the promised Saviour and Messiah of prophecy. In that sermon he traced how the Lord had dealt with the Jews from their deliverance from Egyptian bondage onward. He presented Jesus as a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of Israel, through whom Gentiles are recognized as children of God. When the Jews in envy and jealousy contradicted with blasphemy because multitudes of Gentiles assembled on equality with them, Paul and Barnabas turned without hesitation to the Gentiles.
The saying contrasts Jesus with David, for David died and his body underwent decay, but Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, did not undergo bodily decay or corruption. It identifies Jesus as the Holy One promised in the Psalms, so that His resurrection fulfills the promise that God's Holy One would not see corruption. He was raised never to return to corruption.
The saying shows that the Lord will not encourage false theories and a low standard. It calls God's people to seek the Lord most earnestly. It calls them to study the light given in the book of Acts and to humble their own hearts before God.