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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但　神曾經藉著眾先知的口，預先宣告他所立的基督將要受害的事，就這樣應驗了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 神 曾 藉 众 先 知 的 口 ， 预 言 基 督 将 要 受 害 ， 就 这 样 应 验 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹² When Peter saw this, he said to them, "People of Israel, why are you surprised? You are looking at us as if it were our own power or goodness that made this man walk. ¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, gave glory to Jesus, his servant. But you handed him over to be killed. Pilate decided to let him go free, but you told Pilate you did not want Jesus. ¹⁴ You did not want the One who is holy and good but asked Pilate to give you a murderer instead. ¹⁵ And so you killed the One who gives life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses to this. ¹⁶ It was faith in Jesus that made this crippled man well. You can see this man, and you know him. He was made completely well because of trust in Jesus, and you all saw it happen! ¹⁷ "Brothers and sisters, I know you did those things to Jesus because neither you nor your leaders understood what you were doing. ¹⁸ God said through the prophets that his Christ would suffer and die. And now God has made these things come true in this way. ¹⁹ So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest. ²⁰ And he will send Jesus, the One he chose to be the Christ. ²¹ But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time comes when all things will be made right again. God told about this time long ago when he spoke through his holy prophets.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

those: Acts 17:2, Acts 17:3, Acts 26:22, Acts 26:23, Acts 28:23, Luke 24:26, Luke 24:27, Luke 24:44, 1 Corinthians 15:3, 1 Corinthians 15:4, 1 Peter 1:10, 1 Peter 1:11, Revelation 19:10

all: Genesis 3:15, Psalms 22:1-30, Psalms 69:1-36, Isaiah 50:6, Isaiah 53:1-12, Daniel 9:26, Zechariah 12:10, Zechariah 13:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 44:22 - return Matthew 1:22 - that Luke 4:21 - This day Luke 16:16 - Law Acts 2:23 - being Acts 4:28 - to do Acts 7:52 - which showed Acts 15:7 - by my Romans 3:25 - set forth Ephesians 4:10 - fill 2 Peter 1:21 - by the Holy 2 Peter 3:2 - ye may Revelation 22:6 - the holy

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

Joshua 23:13
the Lord your God will not help you defeat your enemies. They will be like traps for you, like whips on your back and thorns in your eyes, and none of you will be left in this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Job 1:21
He said: "I was naked when I was born, and I will be naked when I die. The Lord gave these things to me, and he has taken them away. Praise the name of the Lord ."

Job 5:5
The hungry eat his harvest, even taking what grew among the thorns, and thirsty people want his wealth.

Job 31:40
then let thorns come up instead of wheat, and let weeds come up instead of barley." The words of Job are finished.

Psalms 90:3
You turn people back into dust. You say, "Go back into dust, human beings."

Psalms 104:2
you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent.

Proverbs 22:5
Evil people's lives are like paths covered with thorns and traps. People who guard themselves don't have such problems.

Proverbs 24:31
Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But those things which God before had showed,.... In the Scriptures of the Old Testament, concerning the betraying of the Messiah, and his sufferings and death, with the various causes, concomitants, and circumstances of them:

by the mouths of all his prophets; which were since the world began; some pointing out one thing or circumstance, and some another:

that Christ should suffer. The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "that his Christ should suffer"; but then they leave out the word "his" in the preceding clause, which they put into this; and this entire clause is omitted in the Alexandrian copy:

he hath so fulfilled; in the manner he has, so exactly, so perfectly agreeable to the predictions of them, and yet were unknown to the persons by whom they were fulfilled. So wisely and surprisingly are things ordered and overruled by the wise providence of God, who is a God of knowledge, and by whom all actions are weighed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But those things - To wit, those things that did actually occur, pertaining to the life and death of the Messiah.

Had showed - Had announced, or foretold.

By the mouth of all his prophets - That is, by the prophets in general, without affirming that each individual prophet had uttered a distinct prediction respecting this. The prophets “taken together,” or the prophecies “as a whole,” had declared this. The word “all” is not infrequently used in this somewhat limited sense, Mark 1:37; John 3:26. In regard to the prophecies respecting Christ, see the notes on Luke 24:27.

Hath so fulfilled - He has caused to be fulfilled in this manner; that is, by the rejection, the denial, and the wickedness of the rulers. It has turned out to be in strict accordance with the prophecy. This fact Peter uses in exhorting them to repentance; but it is not to be regarded as an excuse for their sins. The mere fact that all this was foretold; that it was in accordance with the purposes and predictions of God, does not take away the quilt of it, or constitute an excuse for it. In regard to this, we may remark:

1. The prediction did not change the nature of the act. The mere fact that it was foretold, or foreknown, did not change its character. See notes on Acts 1:23.
2. Peter still regarded them as guilty. He did not urge the fact that this was foreknown as an excuse for their sin, but to show them that since all this happened according to the prediction and the purpose of God, they might hope in his mercy. The plan was that the Messiah should die to make a way for pardon, and, therefore, they might hope in his mercy.

(3)This was a signal instance of the power and mercy of God in overruling the wicked conduct of people to further his own purposes and plans.

(4)All the other sins of people may thus be overruled, and thus the wrath of man may be made to praise him. But,

1. This will constitute no excuse for the sinner. It is no part of his intention to honor God, or to advance his purposes; and there is no direct tendency in his crimes to advance his glory. The direct tendency of his deeds is counteracted and overruled, and God brings good out of the evil. But this surely constitutes no excuse for the sinner.

If it be asked why Peter insisted on this if he did not mean that it should be regarded as an excuse for their sin, I reply, that it was his design to prove “that Jesus was the Messiah,” and having proved this, he could assure them that there was mercy. Not that they had not been guilty; not that they deserved favor; but that tire fact that the Messiah had come was an argument which proved that any sinners might obtain mercy, as he immediately proceeds to show them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:18. But those things - he hath so fulfilled. — Your ignorance and malice have been overruled by the sovereign wisdom and power of God, and have become the instruments of fulfilling the Divine purpose, that Christ must suffer, in order to make an atonement for the sin of the world. All the prophets had declared this; some of them in express terms, others indirectly and by symbols; but, as the whole Mosaic dispensation referred to Christ, all that prophesied or ministered under it must have referred to him also.