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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers." This is one ground of excuse. The second is of a different kind. As Joseph speaks to his brethren, "God did send me before you"; what in the former speech he had briefly said, in the words, "Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken,"-this he here enlarges upon: "But what God before had showed by the mouth of all His Prophets, that His Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfilled." At the same time …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Since Peter had strongly rebuked the Jews, he again softens his speech to give them the opportunity to come to their senses; and in their defense he deigned to put forward two circumstances: one — their ignorance, the other — that everything he said had been foretold beforehand.
Oecumenius
Peter said, "I know that in ignorance you acted," from which I see many of you turning back and being saved. For he knew that they did not act from ignorance, but he therefore opened to them the door of repentance.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
And see that the true doctor does not become angry with the insane assaulting him, but rather pities them and wishes to heal the raging ones from what he suffers. Listen to the doctor hanging on the cross; surrounded by a crowd of raging madmen, he says: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And his voice was not in vain. …
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