Acts 5:30

5:30 The God of our forefathers81 raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.82

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81	tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”
82	tn Or “by crucifying him” (“hang on a tree” is by the time of the first century an idiom for crucifixion). The allusion is to the judgment against Jesus as a rebellious figure, appealing to the language of Deut 21:23. The Jewish leadership has badly “misjudged” Jesus.