Acts 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.”
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“You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;”
King James Version · Public Domain“But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man--a murderer--to be granted to you,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 3:14 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem!See, your King comes to you,righteous and victorious,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Mark 1:24“What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
- Mark 15:7And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.
- Mark 15:11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.
- Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
- Luke 23:18But they all cried out in unison: “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”
- Luke 23:25As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.
- Acts 2:27because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- Acts 22:14Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- James 5:6You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
- 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 John 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
- Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
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