Acts 2:29
Good News Translation
"My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day.

New Revised Standard Version
“Fellow Israelites, I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, it is right for me to speak to you about our ancestor David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is still here.

New American Bible
My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this present say.

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Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this present say.

let me.

Acts 26:26 For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner.

the patriarch.

Acts 7:8,9 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. . . .

Hebrews 7:4 Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.

David.

Acts 13:36 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

1 Kings 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Context
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this present say. 30Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.…
Cross References
1 Kings 2:10
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Nehemiah 3:16
After him built Nehemiah the son of Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.

Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 13:36
For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

Acts 22:5
As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.

Hebrews 7:4
Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.

Acts 2:28
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