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Acts 13:27

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

The people of Jerusalem and their leading men, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the Prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

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"Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.

"I tell you, Peter," replied Jesus, "the cock will not crow to-day till you have disowned all knowledge of me three times."

So Pilate summoned the Chief Priests, and the leading men, and the people,

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

They will do this, because they have not learned to know the Father, or even me.

You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;

So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

For in every town, for generations past, there have been those who preach Moses, read as he is in the Synagogues every Sabbath."

They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the Kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets--speaking from morning till evening.

And yet, my Brothers, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.

Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.

This philosophy is not known to any of the leaders of to-day; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified our glorified Lord.

But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.

Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;




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