Acts 13:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Luke 22:34

Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day until you have denied three times that you know me.”

Luke 23:13

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

Luke 24:20

and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him.

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

John 5:39

“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

Acts 15:21

For in every city, for generations past, Moses has had those who proclaim him, for he has been read aloud every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Acts 28:23

After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

Acts 3:17

“And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Romans 11:25

I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.

1 Corinthians 2:8

and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,