Section 4
They sentenced Him to death and had Him cru cified. This was the attitude of the leaders of the Jewish nation, those among whom Christ was born, lived, and worked.
RAISED UP BY GOD
In the book of Acts we are told a number of times that God raised up, resurrected, the Lord Jesus. For example, referring to the Lord Jesus, Acts 2:24 says, "Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death." Acts 2:32 says, "This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are wit nesses." Acts 3:15 speaks of "the Author of life… whom God raised from the dead," and 4:10 tells of "Jesus Christ the Nazarene…whom God raised from the dead." Other verses in Acts that speak of God raising up Jesus from among the dead are 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 33-34, 37; 17:31 and 26:8. The reason this is repeated so often is that the entire book of Acts is a book of the testi mony of the resurrection of Christ. The apostles' testimony was that of the resurrection of the Man-Savior. God vindicated Christ by raising Him up.
The resurrection of Christ was not only God's vindication, it was also God's approval of Him and His work. In resurrecting the Lord Jesus,