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Acts 3:17

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“And now, brothers, I know that like your rulers you didn’t know what you were doing.

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Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear about it until today.”

But Joseph refused and said to her, “My master doesn’t concern himself with anything in the house. He trusts me with everything he owns.

Joseph asked them, “What have you done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out because he knows the future?”

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. They said to him, “We don’t know what has happened to this Moses, who led us out of Egypt. Make gods who will lead us.”

Please come and curse these people for me, because they are too strong for me. Maybe then I’ll be able to defeat them and force them out of the country. I know that whomever you bless is blessed and whomever you curse is cursed.”

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people.

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing.” Meanwhile, the soldiers divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice.

Indeed, they will do all this to you because you are committed to me, since they don’t know the one who sent me.

They will do these things to you because they haven’t known the Father or me.

They asked Nicodemus, “Are you saying this because you’re from Galilee? Study ⌞the Scriptures⌟, and you’ll see that no prophet comes from Galilee.”

The people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers didn’t know who Jesus was. They didn’t understand the prophets’ messages, which are read every day of rest—a holy day. So they condemned Jesus and fulfilled what the prophets had said.

The chief priest and the entire council of our leaders can prove that I did this. In fact, they even gave me letters to take to the Jewish community in the city of Damascus. I was going there to tie up believers and bring them back to Jerusalem to punish them.

“I used to think that I had to do a lot of things to oppose the one named Jesus of Nazareth.

The Jewish leaders told Paul, “We haven’t received any letters from Judea about you, and no Jewish person who has come to Rome has reported or mentioned anything bad about you.

They told Aaron, ‘We don’t know what has happened to this Moses, who led us out of Egypt. So make gods who will lead us.’

God has not rejected his people whom he knew long ago. Don’t you know what Elijah says in the Scripture passage when he complains to God about Israel? He says,

Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, their minds became closed. In fact, to this day the same veil is still there when they read the Old Testament. It isn’t removed, because only Christ can remove it.

They can’t understand because they are in the dark. They are excluded from the life that God approves of because of their ignorance and stubbornness.

If I continue to live in this life, my work will produce more results. I don’t know which I would prefer.

In the past I cursed him, persecuted him, and acted arrogantly toward him. However, I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief.




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