Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
In Context
29Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
Cross References
Genesis 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Psalms 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you.The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
Isaiah 5:19Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,that we may know it!"
Isaiah 40:13Who has known the mind of the Lord,or has taught him as his counselor?
Isaiah 53:10Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.He has caused him to suffer.When you make his soul an offering for sin,he shall see his offspring.He shall prolong his days,and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Matthew 26:54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:24-32
The Apostles Return to Their Company; The Devout Appeal of the Apostles. 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth… Read the whole commentary →