Acts 3:14

King James Version (1611 Edition)

But ye denied the Holy one, and the Iust, and desired a murderer to be granted vnto you,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.

King James Version
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

English Standard Version
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

New American Standard Bible
"But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

New Century Version
You did not want the One who is holy and good but asked Pilate to give you a murderer instead.

Amplified Bible
"But you disowned and denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for [the pardon of] a murderer to be granted to you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Legacy Standard Bible
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Berean Standard Bible
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

Contemporary English Version
You rejected Jesus, who was holy and good. You asked for a murderer to be set free,

Complete Jewish Bible
You denied the holy and innocent one, and instead asked for the reprieve of a murderer!

Darby Translation
But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man [that was] a murderer should be granted to you;

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus was holy and good, but you said you did not want him. You told Pilate to give you a murderer instead of Jesus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,

George Lamsa Translation
But you denied the Holy One and the Righteous and asked a murderer to be given to you;

Good News Translation
He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.

Lexham English Bible
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and demanded that a man—a murderer—be granted to you.

Literal Translation
But you denied the Holy and Just One , and asked for a man, a murderer, to be granted to you.

American Standard Version
But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

Bible in Basic English
But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,

Hebrew Names Version
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

International Standard Version
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,Psalm 16:10; Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35; Acts 2:27; 4:27; 7:52; 22:14;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
but you the Holy and the Just denied, and demanded for you the man the murderer to be given to you.

Murdock Translation
But ye denied the holy and just One, and demanded that a murderer should be released to you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But ye denyed the holy and iust, and desired a murtherer to be geuen you,

English Revised Version
But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

World English Bible
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But ye renounced the holy one and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted you.

Weymouth's New Testament
Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But ye denyeden the hooli and the riytful, and axiden a mansleer to be youun to you.

Update Bible Version
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man [who was] a murderer to be granted to you,

Webster's Bible Translation
But ye denied the Holy One, and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you,

New English Translation
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

New King James Version
But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

New Living Translation
You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.

New Life Bible
But you turned your backs against the Holy and Right One. Then you asked for a man who had killed someone to go free.

New Revised Standard
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, ye, denied, the Holy and Righteous One, and claimed a man that was a murderer to be granted you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Revised Standard Version
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But ye denyed the holy and iust and desyred a mortherar to be geven you

Young's Literal Translation
and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye denyed the holy and iust, and desyred the murthurer to be geuen you,

Mace New Testament (1729)
but ye renounced him that was holy and just; you interceeded for the life of a murderer,

Simplified Cowboy Version
You double-crossed God's Top Hand and chose instead to release a murderer.

Contextual Overview

¹² And when Peter sawe it, hee answered vnto the people, Yee men of Israel, why marueile ye at this? or why looke yee so earnestly on vs, as though by our owne power or holinesse we had made this man to walke? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus, whom ye deliuered vp, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when hee was determined to let him goe. ¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy one, and the Iust, and desired a murderer to be granted vnto you, ¹⁵ And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And his Name through faith in his Name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him, hath giuen him this perfect soundnesse in the presence of you all. ¹⁷ And now brethren, I wote that through ignorance yee did it, as did also your rulers. ¹⁸ But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, hee hath so fulfilled. ¹⁹ Repent yee therefore, and bee conuerted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shal come from the presence of the Lord. ²⁰ And hee shall send Iesus Christ, which before was preached vnto you. ²¹ Whom the heauen must receiue, vntill the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Holy One: Acts 2:27, Acts 4:27, Acts 7:52, Acts 22:14, Psalms 16:10, Zechariah 9:9, Mark 1:24, Luke 1:35, James 5:6, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 John 2:1, Revelation 3:7

desired: Mark 15:7, Luke 23:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:6 - the whole Psalms 118:23 - the Lord's doing Isaiah 29:21 - and turn Isaiah 57:15 - whose Daniel 9:24 - the most Amos 5:12 - they afflict Habakkuk 1:12 - mine Matthew 12:32 - whosoever Matthew 17:12 - Likewise Matthew 21:39 - slew Matthew 27:16 - a Matthew 27:20 - should Matthew 27:24 - just Mark 10:33 - deliver Mark 15:11 - General Luke 4:34 - the Holy One Luke 12:9 - he Luke 13:34 - and ye Luke 19:14 - General Luke 22:57 - he denied Luke 23:18 - they Luke 23:25 - whom John 16:9 - General John 18:40 - General Acts 10:39 - whom Acts 13:28 - General Hebrews 7:26 - holy 2 Peter 2:1 - denying 1 John 2:20 - the Holy 1 John 2:29 - he is Revelation 3:8 - and hast not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seed and her seed: it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wiues name Eue, because she was the mother of all liuing.

Genesis 9:6
Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Leviticus 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference betweene cleane beasts, and vncleane, and betweene vncleane foules, and cleane: & ye shall not make your soules abominable by beast or by foule, or by any maner of liuing thing, that creepeth on the ground, which I haue separated from you as vncleane.

Psalms 72:9
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Isaiah 29:4
And thou shalt bee brought downe, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach shall be low out of the dust, and thy voyce shalbe as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speach shall whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate straw like the bullocke: and dust shalbe the serpents meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine, sayth the Lord.

Micah 7:17
They shall licke the dust like a serpent, they shall moue out of their holes like wormes of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall feare because of thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But ye denied the Holy One, and the just,.... Who is "holy" both in his divine and human nature, and the fountain of holiness to his people; see Psalms 16:10 and who is "just" or "righteous", both in his person, and in the discharge of his office, and has wrought a righteousness for his people, which is imputed to them. These characters may have a particular regard to the purity of Christ, as man, and to the innocence of his life, and the harmlessness of his actions, in opposition to the unjust charges of his enemies, and the base treatment he met with from them who denied him to be the Christ, the Redeemer and Saviour:

and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; when it was put to their choice, who they would have released, Christ or Barabbas; they requested it as a favour, and desired they might be gratified in having Barabbas, a thief, and a robber, who, with others, had raised an insurrection, and committed murder in it, released, and Christ crucified. They desired an act of grace for him, and a sentence of condemnation to a most shameful and painful death on Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Holy One ... - See Psalms 16:10. Compare the notes on Acts 2:27.

And the Just - The word “just” here denotes “innocent,” or “one who was free from crime.” It is properly used in reference to law, and denotes “one who stands upright in the view of the law, or who is not chargeable with crime.” In this sense, the Lord Jesus was not only personally innocent, but even before his judges he stood unconvicted of any crime. The crime charged on him at first was blasphemy Matthew 26:65, and on this charge the Sanhedrin had condemned him without proof. But of this charge Pilate would not take cognizance, and hence, before him they charged him with sedition, Luke 23:2. Neither of these charges were made out, and of course, in the eye of the law, he was innocent and just. It greatly aggravated their crime that they demanded his death still, even after it was ascertained that they could prove nothing against him, thus showing that it was mere hatred and malice that led them to seek his death.

And desired a murderer - Matthew 27:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:14. Ye denied the HOLY ONE — τον αγιον. A manifest reference to Psalms 16:10: Thou wilt not suffer thy HOLY ONE to see corruption; where the original word חסידיך Chasideyca, thy HOLY ONE, is translated by the Septuagint, τον Ὁσιον σου, a word of the same import with that used by Peter.

And desired a murderer — Barabbas: the case must have been fresh in their own remembrance. Like cleaves to like, and begets its like: they were murderers themselves, and so Christ calls them, Matthew 22:7, and they preferred a murderer to the holy and righteous ONE of God.