Acts 13:27
Good News Translation
For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders did not know that he is the Savior, nor did they understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Yet they made the prophets' words come true by condemning Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Jerusalem and their leaders didn't realize who Jesus was. And they didn't understand the words of the prophets they read each Sabbath. So they condemned Jesus just as the prophets had said.

New American Bible
The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them.

because.

Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers.

Luke 22:34 And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me. And he said to them:

John 8:28 Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.

John 15:21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3 And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

Romans 11:8-10,25 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day. . . .

1 Corinthians 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 3:14 But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

1 Timothy 1:13 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

nor.

Matthew 22:29 And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Luke 24:25-27,44,45 Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken. . . .

which.

Acts 13:14,15 But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and, entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down. . . .

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath.

they have.

Acts 26:22,23 But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass: . . .

Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

Genesis 50:20 You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Matthew 26:54-56 How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done? . . .

Luke 24:20,24 And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him. . . .

John 19:28-30 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst. . . .

John 19:36,37 For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. . . .

Context
In Pisidian Antioch
26Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent. 27For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. 28And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate that they might kill him.…
Cross References
Luke 23:13
And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the magistrates and the people,

Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

John 5:39
Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me.

Acts 3:17
And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers.

Acts 13:15
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.

Acts 13:26
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