Acts 2:23

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus was handed over to you, and you killed him. With the help of evil men, you nailed him to a cross. But God knew all this would happen. It was his plan—a plan he made long ago.

Cross References

Luke 22:22

The Son of Man will do what God has planned. But it will be very bad for the one who hands over the Son of Man to be killed.”

Acts 4:28

These people who came together against Jesus made your plan happen. It was done because of your power and your will.

Acts 3:18

But God said these things would happen. Through the prophets he said that his Messiah would suffer and die. I have told you how God made this happen.

Genesis 50:20

It is true that you planned to do something bad to me. But really, God was planning good things. God’s plan was to use me to save the lives of many people. And that is what happened.

1 Peter 1:20

Christ was chosen before the world was made, but he was shown to the world in these last times for you.

Acts 13:27

The Jews living in Jerusalem and their leaders did not realize that Jesus was the Savior. The words the prophets wrote about him were read every Sabbath day, but they did not understand. They condemned Jesus. When they did this, they made the words of the prophets come true.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will suffer what the Scriptures say will happen to him. But it will be very bad for the one who hands over the Son of Man to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Romans 4:17

As the Scriptures say, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is true before God, the one Abraham believed—the God who gives life to the dead and speaks of things that don’t yet exist as if they are real.

Acts 5:30

You killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross. But God, the same God our fathers had, raised Jesus up from death.

Daniel 4:35

People on earth are not really important. God does what he wants with the powers of heaven and the people on earth. No one can stop his powerful hand or question what he does.

Psalm 76:10

Even human anger can bring you honor when you use it to punish your enemies.

Revelation 13:8

Everyone living on earth would worship the beast. These are all the people since the beginning of the world whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life. The Lamb is the one who was killed.

Jude 1:4

Some people have secretly entered your group. These people have already been judged guilty for what they are doing. Long ago the prophets wrote about them. They are against God. They have used the grace of our God in the wrong way—to do sinful things. They refuse to follow Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you and to make you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I pray that you will enjoy more and more of God’s grace and peace.

Acts 15:18

‘All this has been known from the beginning of time.’

Luke 24:20

But our leaders and the leading priests handed him over to be judged and killed. They nailed him to a cross.

Luke 22:37

The Scriptures say, ‘He was considered a criminal.’ Isaiah 53:12 This Scripture must happen. It was written about me, and it is happening now.”

Acts 7:52

They persecuted every prophet who ever lived. They even killed those who long ago said that the Righteous One would come. And now you have turned against that Righteous One and killed him.

John 19:24

So the soldiers said to each other, “We should not tear this into parts. Let’s throw lots to see who will get it.” This happened to make clear the full meaning of what the Scriptures say: “They divided my clothes among them, and they threw lots for what I was wearing.” Psalm 22:18 So the soldiers did this.

1 Peter 2:8

For them he is also “a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes people fall.” Isaiah 8:14 People stumble because they don’t obey what God says. This is what God planned to happen to those people.

Isaiah 37:26

‘How could you say this, Sennacherib? Did no one ever tell you that I, the Lord, planned these things long ago? From ancient times I decided what would happen. And now I have made it happen. I let you tear down strong cities and change them into piles of rocks.

Matthew 20:19

They will hand him over to the foreigners, who will laugh at him and beat him with whips, and then they will kill him on a cross. But on the third day after his death, he will be raised to life again.”

Matthew 27:35

The soldiers nailed Jesus to a cross. Then they threw dice to divide his clothes between them.

Mark 15:24

The soldiers nailed Jesus to a cross. Then they divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to see who would get what.

Luke 23:33

They were led to a place called “The Skull.” There the soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross. They also nailed the criminals to crosses beside Jesus—one on the right and the other on the left.

John 19:18

There they nailed Jesus to the cross. They also nailed two other men to crosses. They put them on each side of Jesus with him in the middle.

Acts 2:36

“So, all the people of Israel should know this for certain: God has made Jesus to be Lord and Messiah. He is the man you nailed to the cross!”

Acts 5:28

He said, “We told you never again to teach using that name. But look at what you have done! You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching. And you are trying to blame us for his death.”

Romans 2:12

People who have the law and those who have never heard of the law are all the same when they sin. People who don’t have the law and are sinners will be lost. And, in the same way, those who have the law and are sinners will be judged by the law.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

the same Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets. And they forced us to leave their country. They are not pleasing to God, and they are against everyone else.