Acts 4:27

Good News Translation

For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.

Cross References

Job 14:4

Nothing clean can ever come from anything as unclean as human beings.

Job 15:14

Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?

Job 25:4

Can anyone be righteous or pure in God's sight?

Psalm 2:2

Their kings revolt, their rulers plot together against the Lord and against the king he chose.

Psalm 2:6

“On Zion, my sacred hill,” he says, “I have installed my king.”

Psalm 45:7

you love what is right and hate what is evil. That is why God, your God, has chosen you and has poured out more happiness on you than on any other king.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 49:7

Israel's holy God and savior says to the one who is deeply despised, who is hated by the nations and is the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you released and will rise to show their respect; princes also will see it, and they will bow low to honor you.” This will happen because the Lord has chosen his servant; the holy God of Israel keeps his promises.

Isaiah 53:3

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him— we ignored him as if he were nothing.

Isaiah 61:1

The Sovereign Lord has filled me with his Spirit. He has chosen me and sent me To bring good news to the poor, To heal the broken-hearted, To announce release to captives And freedom to those in prison.

Matthew 14:1

At that time Herod, the ruler of Galilee, heard about Jesus.

Matthew 14:3

For Herod had earlier ordered John's arrest, and he had him tied up and put in prison. He had done this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

Matthew 14:6

On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced in front of the whole group. Herod was so pleased

Matthew 21:28

“Now, what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the older one and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

Matthew 27:2

They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Mark 10:33

“Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death and then hand him over to the Gentiles,

Mark 15:31

In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law made fun of Jesus, saying to one another, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Luke 1:35

The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and God's power will rest upon you. For this reason the holy child will be called the Son of God.

Luke 22:63

The men who were guarding Jesus made fun of him and beat him.

Luke 23:1

The whole group rose up and took Jesus before Pilate,

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed

Luke 9:22

He also told them, “The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law. He will be put to death, but three days later he will be raised to life.”

John 1:11

He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him.

John 10:36

As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?

John 18:28

Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.

John 18:29

So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you accuse this man of?”

John 19:34

One of the soldiers, however, plunged his spear into Jesus' side, and at once blood and water poured out. (

Acts 10:38

You know about Jesus of Nazareth and how God poured out on him the Holy Spirit and power. He went everywhere, doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him.

Acts 2:27

because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

Acts 4:30

Reach out your hand to heal, and grant that wonders and miracles may be performed through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.