Acts 2:30

World English Bible

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

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Acts 2:30 in other translations

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne;

Acts 2:30 · American Standard Version

Acts 2:30 in context

  1. 28You made known to me the ways of life.
    You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
  2. 29“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
  3. 30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
  4. 31he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
  5. 32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.