Acts 3:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And now, brethren — A word full of courtesy and compassion, I know — He speaks to their heart, that through ignorance ye did it — which lessened, though it could not take away, the guilt. As did also your rulers — The prejudice lying from the authority of the chief priests and elders, he here removes, but with great tenderness. He does not call them our, but your rulers. For as the Jewish dispensation ceased at the death of Christ, consequently so did the authority of its rulers.