Please read the passage before the commentary.
In the first reading, it is the day of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit has come upon the apostles. Peter is addressing the crowd:
“Jesus of Nazareth was a man commended to you by God. Because God was with him, he worked many signs and wonders. Lawless men, non-Jewish men, men outside the Law of Moses, killed him, but God raised him up from among the dead because God would not allow his Son to undergo the corruption of death. God restored Jesus to life. Jesus is living.”
For ourselves, since Jesus is alive, we likewise are alive. Through the life of Adam, we have death; through the death of Jesus, who is the second Adam, we have life. Through our faith, which is our trust, in God, we are living and we never shall die: we have the life of Jesus in us.
Then Jesus has received the promise of the Holy Spirit and has poured out upon us the gift of the Holy Spirit.
We cannot blame the Jews for the death of Jesus since God has freed him from the corruption of death. How can we blame the Jews who killed Jesus if Jesus was raised from the dead? He is alive and can die no more.
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