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Acts 3:17

Good News Translation

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

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Abimelech said, “I don't know who did this. You didn't tell me about it, and this is the first I have heard of it.”

He refused and said to her, “Look, my master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has.

and Joseph said, “What have you done? Didn't you know that a man in my position could find you out by practicing divination?”

When the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain but was staying there a long time, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to this man Moses, who led us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us.”

They outnumber us, so please come and put a curse on them for me. Then perhaps we will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. I know that when you pronounce a blessing, people are blessed, and when you pronounce a curse, they are placed under a curse.”

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

Jesus said, “Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing.” They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice.

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

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

“Well,” they answered, “are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee.”

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.

The High Priest and the whole Council can prove that I am telling the truth. I received from them letters written to fellow Jews in Damascus, so I went there to arrest these people and bring them back in chains to Jerusalem to be punished.

“I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

They said to him, “We have not received any letters from Judea about you, nor have any of our people come from there with any news or anything bad to say about you.

So they said to Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who will lead us. We do not know what has happened to that man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’

God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the beginning. You know what the scripture says in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel:

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

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.

and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn.

But if by continuing to live I can do more worthwhile work, then I am not sure which I should choose.

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.




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