Acts 3:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

My friends, I am sure that you and your leaders didn't know what you were doing.

Cross References

Genesis 21:26

“This is the first I've heard about it,” Abimelech replied. “Why haven't you said something before? I don't have any idea who did it.”

Genesis 39:8

but he refused and said, “My master isn't worried about anything in his house, because he has placed me in charge of everything he owns.

Genesis 44:15

who asked them, “What have you done? Didn't you know I could find out?”

Exodus 32:1

After the people saw that Moses had been on the mountain for a long time, they went to Aaron and said, “Make us an image of a god who will lead and protect us. Moses brought us out of Egypt, but nobody knows what has happened to him.”

Numbers 22:6

They are too powerful for us to defeat, so would you come and place a curse on them? Perhaps then we can drive them out. I know that anyone you bless will be successful, but anyone you curse will fail.

Luke 23:13

Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people.

Luke 23:34

Jesus said, “Father, forgive these people! They don't know what they're doing.” While the crowd stood there watching Jesus, the soldiers gambled for his clothes. The leaders insulted him by saying, “He saved others. Now he should save himself, if he really is God's chosen Messiah!”

John 15:21

People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me.

John 7:52

Then they said, “Nicodemus, you must be from Galilee! Read the Scriptures, and you will find that no prophet is to come from Galilee.”

Acts 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their leaders didn't realize who Jesus was. And they didn't understand the words of the prophets that they read each Sabbath. So they condemned Jesus just as the prophets had said.

Acts 22:5

The high priest and all the council members can tell you that this is true. They even gave me letters to the Jewish leaders in Damascus, so that I could arrest people there and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.

Acts 26:9

I once thought that I should do everything I could to oppose Jesus from Nazareth.

Acts 28:21

The leaders replied, “No one from Judea has written us a letter about you. And not one of them has come here to report on you or to say anything against you.

Acts 7:40

The people said to Aaron, “Make some gods to lead us! Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don't know what's happened to him now.”

Romans 11:2

God did not turn his back on his chosen people. Don't you remember reading in the Scriptures how Elijah complained to God about the people of Israel?

1 Corinthians 2:8

The rulers of this world didn't know anything about this wisdom. If they had known about it, they would not have nailed the glorious Lord to a cross.

2 Corinthians 3:14

The people were stubborn, and something still keeps them from seeing the truth when the Law is read. Only Christ can take away the covering that keeps them from seeing.

Ephesians 4:18

Their minds are in the dark, and they are stubborn and ignorant and have missed out on the life that comes from God. They no longer have any feelings about what is right,

Philippians 1:22

I don't know what to choose. I could keep on living and doing something useful.

1 Timothy 1:13

I used to say terrible and insulting things about him, and I was cruel. But he had mercy on me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I had not yet put my faith in him.