1. Acts 13:29 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does Paul mean when he says they carried out all that was written about him?

Acts 13:29 (ESV)

29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

Paul affirms that the death of Jesus was not an unfortunate miscarriage of justice, but the fulfillment of what Old Testament prophets had written and said about the Messiah.1