Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here the expression, Unto you, does not mean, Unto (you) Jews, but it gives them a right to sever themselves from those who dared that murder. And what he adds, shows this plainly. For, he says, they that dwell at Jerusalem, because they know Him not.
For since they were possessed by fear, as having slain Him, and conscience made them aliens (the Apostles), discourse not with them as unto Christicides, neither as putting into their hands a good which was not theirs, but one peculiarly their own. (d) For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers: as much as to say, not you, but they: and again, apologizing even for those, Because they knew Him not, and the voices of the Prophets which are read every sabbath day, in condemning Him, they fulfilled them. A great charge it is against them that they continually hearing heeded not. But no marvel: for what was said above concerning Egypt and the wilderness, was enough to show their ingratitude. And observe how this Apostle also, as one moved by the Spirit Himself, continually preaches the Passion, the Burial. (g) Having taken Him down from the tree. Observe, what a great point they make of this. He speaks of the manner of His death. Moreover they bring Pilate (conspicuously) forward, t...
