14, 15. After release from detention, what words from Psalm 2 did the apostles quote as being fulfilled, and what request to God did they make?

¹⁴ Shortly after the establishment of the Christian congregation on the day of Pentecost 33 C.E., anointed Christians discerned an application of Psalm 2:1, 2.

Bible Highlights Psalms 1 to 41

The kings of earth take their stand and high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one, [saying:] ‘Let us tear their bands apart and cast their cords away from us!’” (Ps. 2:1-3)

Then it came to be the time for him to answer with action the question raised by the inspired writer King David, in Psalm 2:1-6:

Just as the disciples in their prayer commented on the fulfillment of the Ps 2:1, 2 first two verses of the inspired psalm written by King David of ancient Jerusalem, so the following verses of the same psalm must have then been undergoing fulfillment.

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This was foretold in Psalm 2:1-4.

Nevertheless, they carry their actions so far as to oppose God’s rulership, for, says the psalmist: “The kings of earth take their stand and high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one.”​—Ps. 2:1, 2.

16. By means of whom will the Great Serpent soon be crushed, and how does Psalm 2:8, 9 picture the crushing of the Serpent’s “seed” on earth?

¹⁶ That was the miniature fulfillment of the prophetic words of King David in Psalm 2:1, 2. (Acts 4:24-28)

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