Acts 3:17

And now, brothers, I have known that through ignorance you did [it], as also your rulers;

Literal Standard Version

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 faith of His Name, this one whom you see and have known, His Name made strong, even the faith that [is] through Him gave to him this perfect soundness before you all.

18and God, what things He had declared before through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He thus fulfilled;

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Cross References

Genesis 21:26and Abimelech says, “I have not known who has done this thing, and even you did not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard except today.”

Genesis 44:15and Joseph says to them, “What [is] this deed that you have done? Have you not known that a man like me diligently observes?”

Numbers 15:24then it has been, if from the eyes of the congregation it has been done through ignorance, that all the congregation has prepared one bullock, a son of the herd, for a burnt-offering, for refreshing fragrance to YHWH, and its present, and its drink-offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

Luke 23:34And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do”; and parting His garments they cast a lot.

John 7:52They answered and said to him, “Are you also out of Galilee? Search and see that a prophet has not risen out of Galilee”; [[

Acts 7:40saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who will go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known 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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