Acts 3:17

17 "Brothers and sisters, I know you did those things to Jesus because neither you nor your leaders understood what you were doing.

Acts 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:17

And now, brethren
He calls them brethren, because they were so according to the flesh; and to testify his cordial love and affection for them. I wot,
or "I know", that through ignorance ye did it;
delivered up Jesus into the hands of Pilate; denied him to be the Messiah before him; preferred a murderer to him, and put him to death. As did also your rulers;
the members of the sanhedrim, some of them; see ( 1 Corinthians 2:8 ) for others of them knew him to be the Messiah, to be sent of God, by the miracles he did, and yet blasphemously ascribed them to Satan; and so sinning against light and knowledge, in such a malicious manner, sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost, to which ignorance is here opposed; and which did not excuse from sin: nor was it itself without sin; nor is it opposed to any sin, but to this now mentioned.

Acts 3:17 In-Context

15 And so you killed the One who gives life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses to this.

16 It was faith in Jesus that made this crippled man well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of trust in Jesus, and you all saw it happen!

17 "Brothers and sisters, I know you did those things to Jesus because neither you nor your leaders understood what you were doing.

18 God said through the prophets that his Christ would suffer and die. And now God has made these things come true in this way.

19 So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.