Acts 7:27 Cross References - WNT

²⁷ "But the man who was doing the wrong resented his interference, and asked, "'Who appointed you magistrate and judge over us?

²³ He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching, the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him and asked Him, "By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?"

¹⁴ "Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

³⁶ "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin." ³⁷ "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

¹² Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar." ¹³ On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement--or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!" ¹⁵ This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go. ¹⁴ Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer. ¹⁵ The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.

⁷ So they made the Apostles stand in the centre, and demanded of them, "By what power or in what name have you done this?"

¹¹ This Jesus is THE STONE TREATED WITH CONTEMPT BY YOU THE BUILDERS, BUT IT HAS BEEN MADE THE CORNERSTONE. ¹² And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved."

³³ Infuriated at getting this answer, they were disposed to kill the Apostles.

³⁵ "The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, 'Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁹ "Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

⁵⁴ As they listened to these words, they became infuriated and gnashed their teeth at him.