Acts 13:27

Jerusalem's people and rulers, not recognizing Jesus, fulfilled the prophets they read by condemning him. Their ignorance accomplished what was foretold.

Cross-references · 23

• Acts 3:17“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
• Acts 15:21For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
• Acts 26:22–23Having 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,
• Luke 24:20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
• Luke 24:24–27Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• Rom 11:8–10According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• 2 Cor 3:14But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
• John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
• Acts 28:23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
• 1 Cor 2:8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
• John 19:36–37For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
• Matt 26:54–56How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
• John 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
• Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
• Luke 24:44–45He 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.”
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Matt 22:29But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• Luke 22:34He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”
• Acts 13:14–15But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
• John 19:28–30After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

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