Acts 3:14
Good News Translation
He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.

New Revised Standard Version
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,

Contemporary English Version
You rejected Jesus, who was holy and good. You asked for a murderer to be set free,

New American Bible
You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

the Holy One.

Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

Acts 22:14 But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.

Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

Mark 1:24 Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 1:35 And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

James 5:6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

desired.

Mark 15:7 And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder.

Luke 23:19 Who, for a certain sedition made in the city and for a murder, was cast into prison.

Context
Peter Speaks in Solomon's Colonnade
13The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. 14But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. 15But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that they should ask Barabbas and make Jesus away.

Mark 1:24
Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Mark 15:11
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

Luke 23:18
But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:

Luke 23:25
And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition had been cast into prison, whom they had desired. But Jesus he delivered up to their will.

John 16:10
And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.

John 18:40
Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Acts 4:27
For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Acts 5:28
Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

Acts 13:28
And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate that they might kill him.

2 Corinthians 5:21
Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Acts 3:13
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