King James Version
Acts 13:29 in the King James Version says “And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.”
Acts 13:29 · KJV
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
But God raised him from the dead:
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“they had fulfilled”
G5055to end, i.e., complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt)
“of”
G4012properly, through (all over), i.e., around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive cas
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“they took him down”
G2507to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively)
“from”
G575"off," i.e., away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)
“the tree”
G3586timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
“and laid”
G5087to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from g2476, which pr
“him in”
G1519to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
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