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Acts 3:14 (WEB)
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Catechism · 3

§438Article 2 · "And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"Read at vatican.va
“His works and words will manifest him as "the Holy One of God".” — Catechism footnote: Mk 1:24; Jn 6:69; Acts 3:14.

§597Paragraph 2 · Jesus Died CrucifiedRead at vatican.va
“Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 15:11; Acts 2:23, 36; 3:13-14; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; 10:39; 13:27-28; I Th 2:14-15.
§601Paragraph 2 · Jesus Died CrucifiedRead at vatican.va
“The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin.” — Catechism footnote: Is 53:11; cf. 53:12; Jn 8 34-36; Acts 3:14.

Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History III.7Book III
“…multitude of the Jews uttered, when they begged the release of the robber and murderer, but besought that the Prince of Life should be taken from their midst, it is not necessary to add anything to the account of the historian.” — editor's note: Compare Acts iii. 14, and see Matt. xvii. 20, Mark xv. 11, Luke xxii. 18.
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Hippolytus of Rome, Expository Treatise Against the Jews
“Let us condemn him with a shameful death, for by his own saying he shall be respected.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 14, 16, 17, 20. [The argument is ad hominem. The Jews valued this book, but did not account it to be Scripture; yet this quotation is a very…
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor III.11Book III
“The Instructor will not then bring us to public spectacles; nor inappropriately might one call the racecourse and the theatre “the seat of plagues;” for there is evil counsel as against the Just One, and therefore the assembly against Him is execrated.” — editor's note: Acts iii. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 31
“When that lame man who sat at the gate rose up at Peter’s voice, and walked on his feet, so that men marvelled, Peter spoke to them to this effect, that it was not by his own power that he did this, but in the virtue of Him whom they slew.” — editor's note: Acts iii. 2–16.
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