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Acts 3:14

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

You, I say, disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for the release of a murderer!

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But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.

"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"

But the Chief Priests incited the crowd to get Barabbas released instead.

A man called Barabbas was in prison, with the rioters who had committed murder during a riot.

"The Holy Spirit shall descend upon you," answered the angel, "and the Power of the Most High shall overshadow you; and therefore the child will be called 'holy,' and 'Son of God.'

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.

As to Righteousness, for I am going to the Father, and you will see me no longer;

"No, not this man," they shouted again, "but Barabbas!" This Barabbas was a robber.

They found no ground at all for putting him to death, and yet demanded his execution from Pilate;

For you wilt not abandon my soul to the Place of Death, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.

Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips;

There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides--

"We gave you strict orders," he said, "not to teach in this Name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man."

Which of the Prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers--

Him who never knew sin God made to be Sin, on our behalf; so that we, through union with him, might become the Righteousness of God.

You have condemned, you have murdered, the Righteous One! Must not God be opposed to you?

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all--the good on behalf of the bad--that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering upon new Life.

My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--

To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--




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