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Psalm 2:7
I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
5Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
7I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
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The decree joins royal authority to a father’s declaration: the king on Zion hears YHWH name him as his son.
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Hebrews 1:5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to …Hebrews quotes the declaration from Psalm 2:7 to distinguish the Son from angels: God addresses him as his Son.
Hebrews 5:5So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”Hebrews quotes this decree about Christ, connecting the Father’s declaration with Christ’s appointment as high priest rather than self-glorification.
Acts 13:33that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become …Acts names the second psalm and quotes this decree, declaring its fulfillment in God’s raising up Jesus.
Matthew 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”God identifies his Son in both passages; Matthew adds the heavenly voice’s declaration of love and pleasure in him.
John 1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.The Father-Son relationship appears in both texts; John describes the Word made flesh as the only born Son of the Father.
Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”Both passages contain God’s direct address to his Son; Luke records that address alongside the Holy Spirit’s descent.
Matthew 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am …God names his Son in both passages; Matthew’s voice from the cloud also commands those present to listen to him.
Matthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”The psalm records God naming his son, while Peter identifies Jesus as the Christ and the Son of the living God.
Psalm 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.Both psalms connect royal standing with God’s declaration of sonship; Psalm 89 names the appointed king as firstborn.
Romans 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,Both texts concern a declaration of divine sonship; Romans identifies Jesus Christ as Son of God with power through resurrection.
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.Both passages speak of God’s Son; John describes God’s love in giving that Son so believers may have eternal life.
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The king’s authority rests on God’s decree. Acts applies these words to Jesus, so your trust in him has its ground in what God has declared.
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