Acts 4:27 (WEB)
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Catechism · 2
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“This had to be the case all the more so for the Messiah whom God would send to inaugurate his kingdom definitively.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ps 2:2; Acts 4:26-27.
Jesus Died Crucified
“…peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“But we learn no such fact from the Acts of the Apostles in that ejaculation of the Church to God, “Of a truth, Lord, against Thy Holy Child Jesus, whom Thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 27.
Read the whole comment“…with the Spirit by God the Father; as written in the Acts: “For truly they were gathered together in this city against Thy Holy Son whom Thou hast anointed.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 27. “In this city” (ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ) is omitted in the English version; and the name ᾽Ιησοῦν, “Jesus,” is omitted by Tertullian. Compare Acts x. 38…
Read the whole comment“…vain devices;” after that “the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers took their counsel together against the Lord, and against His Christ.”” — editor's note: Comp. Ps. ii. 2, 3, with Acts iv. 25–30.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But further, inasmuch as the pagans are in the habit of bringing such slanderous charges against the Gospel, I would ask them to consider how their own writers have spoken of Phaedras and Medeas and Clytemnestras, when there really was but a single individual reputed under each of these names.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 26, 27.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“To this the Apostle Peter witnesses, Of a truth in this city were they gathered together against Thy holy Son Jesus, Whom Thou didst anoint: and on another occasion, Ye know that the saying was published through all Judæa, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached: even Jesus of…” — editor's note: Acts iv. 27.
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Leo the Great
“…Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel were gathered together to do what Thy hand and Thy counsel ordained to come to pass.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 27, 28; it is perhaps worth noticing that Leo does not strictly follow the Biblical account in saying that the Apostles were “full of the Holy Ghost”…
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 6.
Cited together in Catechism §600.
Cited together in Catechism §600 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §600.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels III.17.
Cited together in Catechism §600.
Cited together in Catechism §600.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Catechism §600.
Cited together in Catechism §600.