Acts 3:17
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New International Version (©2011)
"Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Friends, I realize that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance like your leaders.

NET Bible (©2006)
And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“But now my brothers, I know that because of deception you did this as your Rulers did.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"And now, brothers, I know that like your rulers you didn't know what you were doing.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

American King James Version
And now, brothers, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

American Standard Version
And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Darby Bible Translation
And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as also your rulers;

English Revised Version
And now, brethren, I wot that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Weymouth New Testament
"And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also.

World English Bible
"Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did it, as also your rulers;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:12-18 Observe the difference in the manner of working the miracles. Our Lord always spoke as having Almighty power, never hesitated to receive the greatest honour that was given to him on account of his Divine miracles. But the apostles referred all to their Lord, and refused to receive any honour, except as his undeserving instruments. This shows that Jesus was one with the Father, and co-equal with Him; while the apostles knew that they were weak, sinful men, and dependent for every thing on Jesus, whose power effected the cure. Useful men must be very humble. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy name, give glory. Every crown must be cast at the feet of Christ. The apostle showed the Jews the greatness of their crime, but would not anger or drive them to despair. Assuredly, those who reject, refuse, or deny Christ, do it through ignorance; but this can in no case be an excuse.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - In for through, A.V. I wot that in ignorance, etc. Mark the inimitable skill and tenderness with which he who had just wounded by his sharp rebuke now binds up the wound. All sternness and uncompromising severity before, he is all gentleness and indulgence now. They were only "men of Israel" in ver. 12, now they are "brethren." He has an excuse for their grievous sin. They did it in ignorance (comp. Luke 23:33; 1 Timothy 1:13). Only let them see their error and repent of what they had done, and their forgiveness was sure.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17-21. And now, brethren—Our preacher, like his Master, "will not break the bruised reed." His heaviest charges are prompted by love, which now hastens to assuage the wounds it was necessary to inflict.

I wot—"know."

through ignorance ye did it—(See marginal references, Lu 23:34; Ac 13:27; 26:9).

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Peter Speaks in Solomon's Colonnade
…16And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yes, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17And now, brothers, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers. 18But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled. …

Luke 23:13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people,
Luke 23:34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
John 15:21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
John 16:3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
Acts 13:27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
Acts 22:5 as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
Acts 26:9 "I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 28:21 They replied, "We have not received any letters from Judea concerning you, and none of our people who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you.
Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.