Acts 2:29

Here the Apostle begins his argument from the words of David, and at the outset speaks to his hearers as brethren.

Men and brethren See on Acts 1:16.

let me freely speak Better (with the margin), I may freely say unto you of the patriarch David that he both died and was burled, i.e. none of you will contradict such a statement. As St Paul using the same argument (Acts 13:36), "David after he had served his own generation fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers."

and his sepulchre is with us thus shewing that after death he did not rise again. The sepulchre of the House of David was a famous object in the Holy City. Among the marvels of Jerusalem mentioned in the Aboth de-Rabbi Nathan(c. 35), we are told, "There are no graves made in Jerusalem except the tombs of the house of David and of Huldah the Prophetess, which have been there from the days of the first prophets."

On the burial of David in Zion, cp. 1 Kings 2:10 with 2 Samuel 5:7.