⁴⁷ And when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.

¹⁸ Because Christ also ^[a]suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

2 My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an ^[a]Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

⁷ My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous: