Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Acts 13:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For those who dwell in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not know or recognize Him or understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, have actually fulfilled these very predictions by condemning and sentencing [Him]. American Standard Version (1901) For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. Common English Bible The people in Jerusalem and their leaders didn’t recognize Jesus. By condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Catholic Public Domain Version For those who were living in Jerusalem, and its rulers, heeding neither him, nor the voices of the Prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled these by judging him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath, judging him have fulfilled them. |
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day until you have denied three times that you know me.”
Pilate then called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people
and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him.
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.
For in every city, for generations past, Moses has had those who proclaim him, for he has been read aloud every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.
“And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.
and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,