Acts 3:17

Peter acknowledges that the people and their rulers acted in ignorance when they rejected Jesus. He speaks pastorally, opening the door to repentance rather than only condemnation.

Cross-references · 18

• Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
• Acts 13:27For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• 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.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Rom 11:2God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
• John 7:26–27Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
• Acts 26:9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 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.
• Gen 21:26Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
• John 7:52They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
• Num 15:24–31then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with its meal offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
• Gen 44:15Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”
• Num 22:6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
• Acts 7:40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
• Exod 32:1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
• Gen 39:8But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
• Phil 1:22But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

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