Was it possible for Christ to be holden of death?

Answer

"Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by
wicked hands have crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that He should be holden of it." Acts 2: 23, 24.

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Wherein does the new covenant differ from and excel the old?
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To what Old Testament promise did Peter evidently refer?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle