Acts 3:18

Updated Bible Version

But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets—that his Messiah would suffer.

King James Version (1611)
But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, hee hath so fulfilled.

King James Version
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

English Standard Version
But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

New American Standard Bible
"But the things which God previously announced by the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has fulfilled in this way.

New Century Version
God said through the prophets that his Christ would suffer and die. And now God has made these things come true in this way.

Amplified Bible
"And so God has fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ (Messiah, Anointed) would suffer.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

Berean Standard Bible
But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

Contemporary English Version
But God had his prophets tell that his Messiah would suffer, and now he has kept that promise.

Complete Jewish Bible
But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.

Darby Translation
but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

Easy-to-Read Version
But God said these things would happen. Through the prophets he said that his Messiah would suffer and die. I have told you how God made this happen.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

George Lamsa Translation
But those things, which God before had preached by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.

Good News Translation
God announced long ago through all the prophets that his Messiah had to suffer; and he made it come true in this way.

Lexham English Bible
But the things which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.

Literal Translation
But what things God before proclaimed through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.

American Standard Version
But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Bible in Basic English
But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

Hebrew Names Version
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

International Standard Version
This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets - that his Christ[fn] would suffer.Psalm 22:1-31; Isaiah 50:6; 53:5; Daniel 9:26; Luke 24:44; Acts 26:22; 1 Peter 1:10-11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and Aloha, according to that which he had before proclaimed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Meshiha should suffer, hath fulfilled this.

Murdock Translation
and God, according as he had previously announced by the mouth of all the prophets that the Messiah would suffer, hath in this manner fulfilled [fn] .

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But those thynges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophetes, that Christe shoulde suffer, he hath so fulfylled.

English Revised Version
But the things which God foreshewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

World English Bible
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But God hath thus fulfilled the things which he foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

Weymouth's New Testament
But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But God that bifor telde bi the mouth of alle profetis, that his Crist schulde suffre, hath fillid so.

Webster's Bible Translation
But those things which God before had shown by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

New English Translation
But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets—that his Christ would suffer—he has fulfilled in this way.

New King James Version
But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

New Living Translation
But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.

New Life Bible
In this way, God did what He said He would do through all the early preachers. He said that Christ must suffer many hard things.

New Revised Standard
In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, God - what things he had before declared, through the mouth of all the prophets, for his Christ to suffer, - did thus fulfill!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Revised Standard Version
But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophetes how yt Christ shuld suffre he hath thus wyse fulfilled.

Young's Literal Translation
and God, what things before He had declared through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He did thus fulfil;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But God, which by the mouth of all his prophetes had shewed before, yt his Christ shulde suffre, hath so fulfilled it.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but thus it is that God has accomplished what he had foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But all of it had to happen because God had predicted a long time ago that the Top Hand would suffer.

Contextual Overview

¹² And when Peter saw it, he answered to the people, You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? or why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom you delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. ¹⁴ But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man [who was] a murderer to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And by faith in his name has his name made this man strong, whom you see and know: yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. ¹⁷ And now, brothers, I know that in ignorance you did it, as also did your rulers. ¹⁸ But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. ¹⁹ Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out; ²⁰ so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ who has been appointed for you, [even] Jesus: ²¹ whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets that have been from of old.

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
And Yahweh God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life:

Genesis 3:15
and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Job 1:21
and he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there: Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away; blessed be the name of Yahweh.

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And takes it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapes for their substance.

Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Psalms 90:3
You turn common man to destruction, And say, Return, you sons of man.

Psalms 104:2
Who cover yourself with light as with a garment; Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain;

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Proverbs 24:31
And, look, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken 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.