Acts 13:27

Good News Translation

For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders did not know that he is the Savior, nor did they understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Yet they made the prophets' words come true by condemning Jesus.

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered them, “How wrong you are! It is because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power.

Luke 22:34

“I tell you, Peter,” Jesus said, “the rooster will not crow tonight until you have said three times that you do not know me.”

Luke 23:13

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

Luke 24:20

Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified.

John 15:21

But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.

John 16:3

People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

John 5:39

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!

John 8:28

So he said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say.

Acts 15:21

For the Law of Moses has been read for a very long time in the synagogues every Sabbath, and his words are preached in every town.”

Acts 28:23

So they set a date with Paul, and a large number of them came that day to the place where Paul was staying. From morning till night he explained to them his message about the Kingdom of God, and he tried to convince them about Jesus by quoting from the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets.

Acts 3:17

“And now, my friends, I know that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was due to your ignorance.

Romans 11:25

There is a secret truth, my friends, which I want you to know, for it will keep you from thinking how wise you are. It is that the stubbornness of the people of Israel is not permanent, but will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to God.

1 Corinthians 2:8

None of the rulers of this world knew this wisdom. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though in the past I spoke evil of him and persecuted and insulted him. But God was merciful to me because I did not yet have faith and so did not know what I was doing.