Luke 23:13

And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were scoffing at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.”

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

“And look, He is speaking openly, and they are saying nothing to Him. Do the rulers truly know that this is the Christ?

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

Now it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people,

“For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

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