Acts 13:29-31
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
29 and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.(A) 30 But God raised him from the dead,(B) 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.(C) These are [now] his witnesses before the people.[a]
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- 13:31 The theme of the Galilean witnesses is a major one in the Gospel of Luke and in Acts and is used to signify the continuity between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of the church and to guarantee the fidelity of the church’s teachings to the words of Jesus.
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