Acts 3:17
Good News Translation
"And now, my friends, I know that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was due to your ignorance.

New Revised Standard Version
“And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Contemporary English Version
My friends, I am sure you and your leaders didn't know what you were doing.

New American Bible
Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Acts 7:40 Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Genesis 21:26 And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.

Genesis 39:8 But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:

Genesis 44:15 And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

Exodus 32:1 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

Numbers 22:6 Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed.

Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel?

Philippians 1:22 And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not.

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Acts 13:27 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.

Numbers 15:24-31 And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and a buck goat for sin: . . .

Luke 23:34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

John 7:26,27,52 And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? . . .

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

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).

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.

Context
Peter Speaks in Solomon's Colonnade
16And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and known, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath given this perfect soundness in the sight of you all. 17And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers. 18But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.…
Cross References
Luke 23:13
And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the magistrates and the people,

Luke 23:34
And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

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.

Acts 13:27
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.

Acts 22:5
As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.

Acts 26:9
And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 28:21
But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or speak any evil of thee.

Ephesians 4:18
Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

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