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All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
Acts 10:43 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
  • KJV To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
  • NKJV To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”
  • NASB All the prophets testify of Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”
  • NLT He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.”

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Quick answer

All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through His name. Faith in Christ is the way of pardon, foretold throughout Scripture.

Overview

Peter grounds the offer of forgiveness in the united witness of the prophets, showing the gospel is the fulfillment of Israel's hope. The word 'everyone' opens this forgiveness to Gentiles as well as Jews, the very point of this episode. Pardon comes not by lineage or law-keeping but through believing in Christ's name.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 33

  • Zech 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  • Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Isa 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
  • Jer 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  • Rom 10:11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
  • Acts 13:38–39Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
  • John 3:14–17Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
  • 1 Pet 1:11trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
  • Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
  • Rom 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  • Acts 4:10–12then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
  • John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
  • Mic 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  • Acts 26:22But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
  • Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 8:34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
  • Gal 3:22But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
  • Acts 3:16By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
  • Luke 24:44–46Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
  • Rev 19:10So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
  • Luke 24:25–27Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  • Col 1:14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
  • Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Eph 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
  • Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
  • Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
  • John 5:39–40You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
  • John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 10:43 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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