“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.”
'The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead - whom you had killed by hanging him on a pole' - the apostles immediately pivot to resurrection testimony, the core of their message. 'The God of our fathers' (ho theos tōn paterōn hēmōn) grounds the argument in Jewish continuity, but the resurrection breaks all continuity. The 'hanging him on a pole' (kremasante epi xylou) is a scriptural allusion to Deuteronomy 21:23, which curses the hanged; the apostles are declaring that Jesus bore the curse.
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