Actes 3:17

17 Et maintenant, frères, je sais que vous avez agi par ignorance, aussi bien que vos chefs.

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Actes 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.

Actes 3:17 In-Context

15 Et vous avez fait mourir le Prince de la vie, que Dieu a ressuscité des morts: nous en sommes témoins.
16 C'est par la foi en son nom, que son nom a raffermi cet homme que vous voyez et connaissez; et c'est la foi en Lui, qui a procuré à cet homme cette parfaite guérison en présence de vous tous.
17 Et maintenant, frères, je sais que vous avez agi par ignorance, aussi bien que vos chefs.
18 Mais c'est ainsi que Dieu a accompli ce qu'il avait prédit par la bouche de tous ses prophètes, que le Christ devait souffrir.
19 Repentez-vous donc et vous convertissez, afin que vos péchés soient effacés,
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.