Acts 3:17

“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did also.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

In Context

16And on the basis of faith in His name, this one whom you observe and know, was made strong by His name. And the faith, which is by Him, has given to him this wholeness before you all.

18But those things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

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Cross References

Luke 23:34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And dividing His garments, they cast lots.

John 7:52They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see, because no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” 1 A Woman Caught in Adultery

Acts 7:40saying to Aaron, ‘ Make for us gods who will go before us: as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

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 →

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