Acts 13:27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
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28Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
Cross References
Genesis 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
Matthew 26:54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
Luke 24:20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
John 15:21But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
John 19:28After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
Matthew Henry on Acts 13:15-42
Paul at Antioch in Pisidia. 14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. 16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. 17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and… Read the whole commentary →