“But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;”
You killed the Author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. — the paradox is stark: they killed the very source of life (archēgos, author, originator, pioneer, prince), which is to kill the unkillable, to slay life itself. God's raising (anistēmi, raise up, stand up) from the dead reverses the verdict of Golgotha and vindicates Jesus absolutely. The witness claim (martyres, witnesses) grounds the resurrection in eyewitness testimony.
Church Fathers on Acts 3:14
Why do you look so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? Acts 3:13 Nay, not even this; for not by our own merit did we draw down the Divine influence. The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers. See how assiduously he thrusts himself (εἰσωθει) upon the fathers of old, lest he should appear to be introducing a new doctrine. In the former address he appealed to the patriarch David, here he appeals to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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