John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:31
He seeing this before ,.... Or by a spirit of prophecy foreseeing it, that according to God's promise and oath, the Messiah would be raised up, and spring from his seed; and also by the same Spirit foresaw that he would suffer and die, and be laid in the grave, the pit of corruption: spake of the resurrection of Christ ; from the dead, to the sense of the following words, in Psalm 16:10 . that his soul was not left in hell : neither his separate soul in Hades, nor his body in the... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 2:30
Therefore being a prophet ,.... Who could foretell things to come, as he did many things concerning the sufferings and death of Christ, and the circumstances attending it, concerning his resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of God. So the title of his "Psalms", in the Syriac version, runs thus; the "Book of the Psalms of David, King and Prophet": and in the Arabic version, "the First Book of the Psalms of David the Prophet, King of the Children of Israel". Though the Jews ... read more