Acts 3:17

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And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

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  • Luke 23:34 : 34 And Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.' Then they divided His garments by casting lots.
  • Acts 13:27 : 27 The people living in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing Him or the words of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 This wisdom none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
  • Acts 7:40 : 40 They said to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will lead us, for we do not know what has happened to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt.'
  • John 7:26-27 : 26 Yet here He is speaking openly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Could it be that the authorities really have recognized that He is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where He is from.
  • John 7:52 : 52 They responded, 'Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.'
  • Gen 21:26 : 26 But Abimelech said, 'I do not know who did this. You did not tell me, and I have only heard about it today.'
  • Gen 39:8 : 8 But Joseph refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
  • Gen 44:15 : 15 Joseph asked them, "What is this deed you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can certainly practice divination?"
  • Exod 32:1 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Get up, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him."
  • Num 15:24-31 : 24 then if this occurs unintentionally and it was hidden from the community's view, the entire community shall present a young bull as a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, along with its grain offering, drink offering, and a male goat as a sin offering. 25 The priest shall make atonement for the whole community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven because it was unintentional. They shall bring their offering, a fire offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their sin of ignorance. 26 The entire community of the Israelites and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people sinned unintentionally. 27 If a single person sins unintentionally, they must present a one-year-old female goat as a sin offering. 28 The priest will make atonement before the Lord for the person who sinned unintentionally. When atonement is made, they will be forgiven. 29 The same law applies to both the native-born Israelites and the foreigner who lives among them for anyone who sins unintentionally. 30 But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or a foreigner, is blaspheming the Lord and must be cut off from their people. 31 Because they have despised the word of the Lord and broken His commandment, they must be cut off completely. Their guilt remains on them.
  • Num 22:6 : 6 Now, please come and curse this people for me, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
  • Phil 1:22 : 22 Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful labor for me. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?

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