Impossible!

Two images and a single word depict the drama of the situation which is the great redemptive historical act that formed the prelude to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Those images are found in the words of Acts 2:24 "putting an end to" and "held" which speak of Jesus' body being lashed to a bed of death and His body clutched in the grip of death. The striking thought which Peters expresses is that it was "impossible" for death to hold Christ down. In verse 25 Peter grounds his statement by appealing to Psalm 16 and his argument is that it was impossible for death to hold Christ in its clutch because God made a promise through David that He would not permit the flesh of the Holy One to see decay.