But God raised him, loosing the pangs of death, because death had no power to hold him.
In context
22Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man marked out for you by God through the mighty deeds, wonders and signs that God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23This man, handed over by God’s settled purpose and foreknowledge, you nailed up by the hands of the lawless and killed. 24But God raised him, loosing the pangs of death, because death had no power to hold him. 25David says of him: ‘I kept the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. 26That is why my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body, too, will rest in hope,
