Acts 13:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

They; the common people, and their rulers; great council, both had a hand in our Saviour's death. But if so great a fault was capable of any alleviation, the apostle gladly mentions it. that it was done out of ignorance; they knew neither Christ the Word, nor the word (of the Gospel) concerning Christ, though, that they may be made sensible that this their ignorance was not invincible, he minds them that it was their sin, having had means whereby they might have come unto the knowledge of Christ. Fulfilled them: see Acts 4:28 Luke 24:25,26.

Acts 13:27

27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.