Acts 2:23

This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain. By the determinate, etc... God delivered up his Son; and his Son delivered up himself, for the love of us, and for the sake of our salvation; and so Christ's being delivered up was holy, and was God's own determination. But they who betrayed and crucified him, did wickedly, following therein their own malice and the instigation of the devil; not the will and determination of God, who was by no means the author of their wickedness; though he permitted it; because he could, and did draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of man.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

In Context

22Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:

24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. Having loosed the sorrow, etc... Having overcome the grievous pains of death and all the power of hell.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:20You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Isaiah 10:6I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Matthew 26:24The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Luke 22:22And the Son of man indeed goeth, according to that which is determined: but yet, woe to that man by whom he shall be betrayed.

Luke 24:20And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:15-37

Peter's Sermon at Jerusalem. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and… Read the whole commentary →

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