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.

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• Matt 27:2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
• Acts 4:30while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
• Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Mark 14:1–2It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
• Matt 20:18–19“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Matt 21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Matt 27:40–43and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
• John 19:34However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
• Luke 22:1–6Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
• Acts 2:27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
• Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
• Luke 22:47–52While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
• Luke 18:31–33He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
• Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• Luke 13:31–33On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”
• Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• Matt 2:13–16Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
• Mark 15:1–27Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• Luke 23:7–38When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
• Acts 3:13–14The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
• John 18:19–24The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.
• Zech 11:7–8So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
• Luke 22:63The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
• Mark 10:33“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
• Matt 26:3–4Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
• Matt 26:59–68Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
• Luke 20:13–19The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’
• Matt 14:1At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,
• Mark 14:43–65Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came — and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
• Mark 15:31Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
• John 10:36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

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