Acts 3:14

Peter Preaches In The Temple

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. ¹⁴ But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you. ¹⁵ You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

Righteous One

Mark 1:24

“What do You have to do with us, Jesus—Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Acts 4:27

“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that He might bring you to God,
after being put to death in the fleshly realm
but made alive in the spiritual realm.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem!
Look, your King is coming to you;
He is righteous and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Luke 23:18-19

Then they all cried out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas to us!”

Luke 23:25

and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

Acts 22:14

Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of His voice.

James 5:6

You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

Revelation 3:7

“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

“The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens says:

Psalm 16:10

For You will not abandon me to Sheol;
You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.

Mark 15:7

There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.

Mark 15:11

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

Luke 1:35

The angel replied to her:

“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore, the holy One to be born
will be called the Son of God.

Acts 2:27

because You will not leave me in Hades
or allow Your Holy One to see decay.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.