Acts 4:27

New Living Translation

“In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.

Cross References

Job 14:4

Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!

Job 15:14

Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?

Job 25:4

How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one.

Psalm 2:6

For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”

Psalm 45:7

You love justice and hate evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.

Isaiah 37:26

“But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.

Isaiah 49:7

The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed.

Matthew 14:1

When Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee, heard about Jesus,

Matthew 14:3

For Herod had arrested and imprisoned John as a favor to his wife Herodias (the former wife of Herod’s brother Philip).

Matthew 14:6

But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him,

Matthew 21:28

“But what do you think about this? A man with two sons told the older boy, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me.

Matthew 27:2

Then they bound him, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Mark 10:33

“Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die and hand him over to the Romans.

Mark 15:31

The leading priests and teachers of religious law also mocked Jesus. “He saved others,” they scoffed, “but he can’t save himself!

Luke 1:35

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.

Luke 22:63

The guards in charge of Jesus began mocking and beating him.

Luke 23:1

Then the entire council took Jesus to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,

Luke 9:22

“The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

John 1:11

He came to his own people, and even they rejected him.

John 10:36

why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.

John 18:28

Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn’t go inside because it would defile them, and they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover.

John 18:29

So Pilate, the governor, went out to them and asked, “What is your charge against this man?”

John 19:34

One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

Acts 10:38

And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 2:27

For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.

Acts 4:30

Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Hebrews 7:26

He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has been set apart from sinners and has been given the highest place of honor in heaven.