Acts 4:27

The believers identify Herod, Pilate, the Gentiles, and Israel as those gathered against God's holy servant Jesus, whom he anointed. The plot of Psalm 2 was fulfilled in the crucifixion.

Cross-references · 40

• Matt 27:2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
• Acts 4:30By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
• Luke 9:22Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Mark 14:1–2After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
• Matt 20:18–19Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Matt 21:28But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Matt 27:40–43And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• John 19:34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
• Luke 22:1–6Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
• Acts 2:27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
• Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
• Luke 22:47–52And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
• Luke 18:31–33Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• John 1:11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
• Luke 13:31–33The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
• Isa 49:7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
• Matt 2:13–16And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
• Mark 15:1–27And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
• Acts 10:38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• Luke 23:7–38And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
• Ps 45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Acts 3:13–14The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
• John 18:19–24The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
• Zech 11:7–8And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
• Luke 22:63And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
• Mark 10:33Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
• Matt 26:3–4Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
• Matt 26:59–68Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• John 18:28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
• Luke 20:13–19Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
• Matt 14:1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
• Mark 14:43–65And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
• Mark 15:31Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
• John 10:36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

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