2:29-36 How are we to understand what Peter says here?
2:29-36 How are we to understand what Peter says here?
In V 34 Peter quotes from Kings David's prophecy in Psa 110:1 concerning the Lord being exalted at God's right hand in heaven. Peter explains that David was not speaking of himself here because he was both dead and buried, and his grave still existed at that time.
Peter told the Jews that the Lord, of whose exaltation David prophesied, was "this same Jesus, whom ye have crucified" (CP Psa 110:1).
The Jews had crucified God's anointed one, and the coming of the Holy Spirit in Ac 2, which the Jews were now witnessing outworking in the disciples, was the evidence of Jesus' exaltation (CP Ac 2:1-14, 33).
The Jews present were so convicted by the Holy Spirit of their rejection and crucifixion of Jesus, that three thousand of them were saved that day (CP V41). See also comments on Ac 2:37-38 and 2:41.