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Acts 2:24
whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:24 · American Standard Version
Acts 2:24 in other translations
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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In context
21 And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;
23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David saith concerning him, I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; Moreover my flesh also shall dwell in hope:
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
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