14But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)We have here the sermon which Peter preached after he had cured the lame man. When Peter saw it . 1. When he saw the people got together in a crowd, he took that opportunity to preach Christ to them, especially the temple being the place of their concourse, and Solomon’s porch there: let them come and hear a more excellent wisdom than Solomon’s, for, behold, a greater than Solomon is here preached…
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