Handelingen 13:27

27 Want die te Jeruzalem wonen, en hun oversten, Dezen niet kennende, hebben ook de stemmen der profeten, die op elken sabbat dag gelezen worden, Hem veroordelende, vervuld;

Handelingen 13:27 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 13:27

For they that dwelt at Jerusalem, and their rulers
The inhabitants of that city, and the great sanhedrim which sat there: because they knew him not; that is, either Jesus the Saviour, whom God had raised of the seed of David, and to whom John bore witness; and which must be understood, not of all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and members of the sanhedrim; for though some were ignorant, yet there were others that knew that Jesus was the Messiah, and notwithstanding rejected him; but the apostle chooses to take no notice of these, because he would not irritate and provoke, but rather of others, that were really ignorant of Christ: or else this may be understood of the Gospel, the word of salvation, that the Jews knew not "that"; and so the Syriac version renders it; and to which agrees the Ethiopic version, which reads thus, "they knew not this word of the prophets", joining the word of salvation, and what follows, together:

nor yet the voices of the prophets:
"or the writings of the prophets", as the Syriac version, and some copies read; their prophecies concerning the Messiah, particularly in ( Psalms 22:1-31 ) ( Isaiah 53:1-12 ) ( Daniel 9:1-27 ) which are read every sabbath day; (See Gill on Acts 13:15)

they have fulfilled them;
the word, of the prophets:

in condemning him;
Jesus Christ, for these prophets testified, in the places referred to, of the sufferings and death of Christ, to which he was condemned by them.

Handelingen 13:27 In-Context

25 Doch als Johannes den loop vervulde, zeide hij: Wien meent gijlieden, dat ik ben? Ik ben de Christus niet; maar ziet, Hij komt na mij, Wien ik niet waardig ben de schoenen Zijner voeten te ontbinden.

26 Mannen broeders, kinderen van het geslacht Abrahams, en die onder u God vrezen, tot u is het woord dezer zaligheid gezonden.

27 Want die te Jeruzalem wonen, en hun oversten, Dezen niet kennende, hebben ook de stemmen der profeten, die op elken sabbat dag gelezen worden, Hem veroordelende, vervuld;

28 En geen oorzaak des doods vindende, hebben zij van Pilatus begeerd, dat Hij zou gedood worden.

29 En als zij alles volbracht hadden, wat van Hem geschreven was, namen zij Hem af van het hout, en legden Hem in het graf.