Acts 3:13

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Acts 3:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.

12 And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

14 You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

15 You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

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Acts 5:30

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

Acts 7:32

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

Exodus 3:6

Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Psalms 105:6

O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

Psalms 105:7

He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.

Psalms 105:8

He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

Psalms 105:9

the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

Psalms 105:10

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Matthew 22:32

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Hebrews 11:11

By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 11:14

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Acts 2:33

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Acts 2:34

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

Acts 2:35

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

Acts 2:36

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

Acts 5:31

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Psalms 2:6

“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

Psalms 2:7

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

Psalms 2:8

Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

Psalms 2:9

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

Psalms 2:10

Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.

Psalms 2:11

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalms 2:12

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

Psalms 110:1

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Psalms 110:2

The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Matthew 11:27

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Matthew 28:18

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

John 3:35

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

John 5:22

Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

John 7:39

He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

John 12:16

At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.

John 13:31

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

John 13:32

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify the Son in Himself—and will glorify Him at once.

John 16:14

He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

John 16:15

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

John 17:1

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

John 17:2

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

John 17:4

I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.

John 17:5

And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

Ephesians 1:20

which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,

Ephesians 1:21

far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

Ephesians 1:22

And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

Ephesians 1:23

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Philippians 2:9

Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

Philippians 2:10

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Philippians 2:11

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

Revelation 1:18

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Acts 13:28

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

Matthew 27:2

They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

Matthew 27:17

So when the crowd had assembled, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

Matthew 27:18

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

Matthew 27:19

While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”

Matthew 27:20

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.

Matthew 27:21

“Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they replied.

Matthew 27:22

“What then should I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify Him!”

Matthew 27:23

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Mark 15:11

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.

Luke 23:16

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

Luke 23:18

But they all cried out in unison: “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!”

Luke 23:19

(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

Luke 23:20

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

Luke 23:21

but they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”

Luke 23:22

A third time he said to them, “What evil has this man done? I have found in Him no offense worthy of death. So after I punish Him, I will release Him.”

Luke 23:23

But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.

John 18:40

“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)

John 19:15

At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.