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The Acts 2:27-38 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

27. The Lord won't leave mein the grave.I am his holy one,and he won't letmy body decay.

28. He has shown methe path to life,and he makes me gladby being near me.”

29. My friends, it is right for me to speak to you about our ancestor David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is still here.

30. But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David that someone from his own family would some day be king.

31. David knew this would happen, and so he told us that Christ would be raised to life. He said that God would not leave him in the grave or let his body decay.

32. All of us can tell you that God has raised Jesus to life!

33. Jesus was taken up to sit at the right side of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and that is what you are now seeing and hearing.

34. David didn't go up to heaven. So he wasn't talking about himself when he said, “The Lord told my Lord to sit at his right side,

35. until he made my Lord's enemies into a footstool for him.”

36. Everyone in Israel should then know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, even though you put him to death on a cross.

37. When the people heard this, they were very upset. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Friends, what shall we do?”

38. Peter said, “Turn back to God! Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven. Then you will be given the Holy Spirit.

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