Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
14But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.
Psalms 110:1I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just, and in the congregation.
Matthew 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew 27:2And they brought him bound and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Matthew 28:18And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. All power, etc... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14.
Luke 22:57But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know him not.
Matthew Henry on Acts 3:13-26
Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple. 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to… Read the whole commentary →