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All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
Acts 10:43 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
  • BSB All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
  • 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“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Isa 53:11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
  • Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
  • Rom 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
  • Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
  • John 3:14–17As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
  • 1 Pet 1:11searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
  • Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
  • Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • Acts 4:10–12be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
  • John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
  • Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
  • Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
  • Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
  • Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Acts 3:16By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
  • Luke 24:44–46He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
  • Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
  • Luke 24:25–27He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
  • Col 1:14in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;
  • Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Eph 1:7in whom we have our 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 brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
  • Acts 3:18But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
  • John 5:39–40“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
  • John 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: 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.

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