Acts 1:16 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁶ "My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, up came Judas, one of the twelve, accompanied by a large mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and the elders of the people.

⁵⁴ Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then — the scriptures that say this must be so?"

⁵⁶ However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

³⁶ David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

⁴³ At that very moment, while he was still speaking, Judas [Iscariot] one of the twelve came up accompanied by a mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and scribes and elders.

⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, there came a mob headed by the man called Judas, one of the twelve. He approached in order to kiss Jesus,

³⁵ If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came — and scripture cannot be broken —

³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

¹⁸ When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

² Judas the traitor also knew the spot, for Jesus and his disciples often met there. ³ So after procuring troops and some attendants belonging to the high priests and the Pharisees, Judas went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴ Then Jesus, who knew everything that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?" ⁵ "Jesus the Nazarene," they replied. Jesus said, "I am he." (And Judas the traitor was standing beside them.) ⁶ When he said, "I am he," they fell back and dropped to the ground; ⁷ so he asked them once more, "Who are you looking for?" And when they replied, "Jesus the Nazarene," ⁸ he answered, "I told you that I am he; if it is me you are looking for, let these men get away"

²⁸ After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty." ²⁹ A jug full of vinegar was lying there; so they put a sponge full of vinegar on a spear and held it to his lips. ³⁰ And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

³⁶ For this took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him will be broken.

²⁰ Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge.

²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

²⁹ Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day. ³⁰ (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne; ³¹ so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay.

³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"

²⁵ who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood ready, the rulers mustered together against the Lord and his Christ. ²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, ²⁸ mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

² "Listen, brothers and fathers," said Stephen. "The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before ever he stayed in Haran,

¹⁵ and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

²⁶ Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us. ²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath; ²⁸ though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death, ²⁹ and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.

³⁸ So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him,

⁷ and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

¹³ When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me.

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you."

¹ With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

⁶ Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"

¹⁷ Three days later, he called the leading Jews together, and when they met he said to them, "Brothers, although I have done nothing against the People or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

²⁵ As they could not agree among themselves, they were turning to go away, when Paul added this one word: "It was an apt word that the holy Spirit spoke by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert,

¹¹ the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

²¹ Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.