Acts 13:30 — ExegesisTAB

The verse begins with ho {ὁ | ho} followed by the postpositive conjunction de {δὲ | dé}, giving the sense “but” or “now” and marking a contrast with the preceding statement about human actions toward Jesus. The explicit subject theos {θεὸς | the-ós} is placed early in the clause for emphasis, highlighting God as the decisive agent. The aorist verb egeiren {ἤγειρεν | ḗ-gei-ren} functions as a constative aorist, presenting the resurrection as a single, completed historical event. The direct object auton {αὐτὸν | au-tón} refers contextually to Jesus, whose name has just been mentioned in the prior verse, so the clause syntactically reads “God raised Him.” The prepositional phrase ek nekrōn {ἐκ νεκρῶν | ek ne-krôn} employs ek with a genitive plural noun, a standard idiom for resurrection “from among the dead,” picturing Jesus as emerging out from the realm of all who have died. In English, a straightforward subject–verb–object–prepositional phrase order (“But God raised Him from the dead”) preserves both the contrast introduced by de and the focus on God’s action while maintaining idiomatic flow.