Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 13:29

ὡς δὲ ἐτέλεσαν ἅπαντα : St. Paul was evidently acquainted with the details of the Passion as well as with the main facts of the death and burial, cf. 1 Corinthians 11:23; and for the verb used here Luke 18:31; Luke 22:37; John 19:28; John 19:30; only here in Acts, Weiss regards the subject of ἐτέλ., καθέλ., ἔθηκαν as presupposed as known in accordance with the Gospel history, but St. Paul may have been speaking in general terms of the action of the Jews, although not the enemies of Christ but His friends actually took Him down and buried Him. Taken literally, St. Paul's statement agrees with the Gospel of Peter, 21 24, as Hilgenfeld noted. But Joseph of Arimathæa and Nicodemus were both Jews and members of the Council. τοῦ ξύλου, cf. Acts 5:30; Acts 10:39. Jüngst, without any ground, as Hilgenfeld remarks, refers Acts 13:29 partly on account of this expression to a reviser, and so 34 37. On ξύλον, significant here and in Galatians 3:13, see Ramsay, Expositor, December, 1898. εἰς μν., cf. 1 Corinthians 15:4, the death followed by the burial, and so the reality of the death, “ ἐκ νεκρῶν,” was vouched for.

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