Acts 3:14

The Passion Translation

You rejected the one who is holy and righteous, and instead begged for a murderer to be released.

Cross References

Mark 1:24

“Hey! Leave us alone! Jesus the victorious, I know who you are. You’re God’s Holy One and you have come to destroy us!”

Acts 7:52

Which prophet was not persecuted and murdered by your ancestors? Name just one! They killed them all—even the ones who prophesied long ago of the coming of the Righteous One! Now you follow in their steps and have become his betrayers and murderers.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ suffered and died for sins once and for all—the innocent for the guilty —to bring you near to God by his body being put to death and by being raised to life by the Spirit.

Acts 4:27

“In fact, Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with Jews and non-Jews, met together to take their stand against your holy servant, Jesus the Messiah.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered good and innocent people who had no power to defend themselves.

Acts 22:14

Then he said to me, ‘The God of our ancestors has destined you to know his plan and for you to see the Holy One and to hear his voice.

Revelation 3:7

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia, for these are the solemn words of the Holy One, the true one, who has David’s key, who opens doors that none can shut and who closes doors that none can open:

1 John 2:1

You are my dear children, and I write these things to you so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we continually have a forgiving Redeemer who is face-to-face with the Father: Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.

Acts 2:27

because you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor will you allow your sacred one to experience decay.

Luke 23:25

Then he released the guilty murderer Barabbas, as they had insisted, and handed Jesus over to be crucified.

Luke 1:35

Gabriel answered, “The Spirit of Holiness will fall upon you and almighty God will spread his shadow of power over you in a cloud of glory! This is why the child born to you will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.

Mark 15:11

But the ruling priests stirred up the crowd to incite them to ask for Barabbas instead.

Mark 15:7

Now, Pilate was holding in custody a notorious criminal named Barabbas, one of the assassins who had committed murder in an uprising.

Psalm 16:10

For you will not abandon me to the realm of death, nor will you allow your Faithful One to experience corruption.

Matthew 27:20

Meanwhile, the chief priest and the religious leaders were inciting the crowd to ask for Barabbas to be freed and to have Jesus killed.

John 16:10

“God’s ‘righteousness,’ because I’m going back to join the Father and you’ll see me no longer.

John 18:40

They shouted out over and over, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a robber and a troublemaker.)

Acts 5:28

saying, “Didn’t we strictly warn you that you were to never again teach in this name? But instead you have now filled all of Jerusalem with this doctrine and are committed to holding us responsible for this man’s death!”

Acts 13:28

Even though they could come up with no legal grounds for the death sentence, they pleaded with Pilate to have him executed.