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Acts 4:28
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to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.
to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.
These people who came together against Jesus made your plan happen. It was done because of your power and your will.
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
They did what you in your power and wisdom had already decided would happen.
to do what your power and plan had already determined beforehand should happen.
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to work whatsoever thy hand and thy will have signified before should be done.
to do whatever thy hand and thy pleasure previously marked out to be done.
For to doe whatsoeuer thy hand and thy counsell determined before to be done.
For to do whatsoeuer thy hande & thy counsel determined before to be done.
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
to do all that your hand and plan had predestined to take place.
to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be done.
These people made your plan happen because of your power and your will.
to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.
to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will.
to do everything You planned and said would happen.
to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
To do whatsoever, thy hand and thy counsel, marked out beforehand to come to pass.
To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.
To execute whatever your hand and your will had previously decreed to take place.
They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.
To do whatever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
To do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel before determined to be done.
to do all that Thy power and Thy will had predetermined should be done.
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to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place.
for to do whatsoever thy honde and thy counsell determined before to be done.
to do whatever your hand and your council predetermined to come to pass.
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
to do whatever Your hand and purpose predestined to occur.
to do what soeuer thy hande and thy councell determyned before to be done.
to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done.
But you knew all of that would happen.
to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.
to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to do: Acts 2:23, Acts 3:18, Acts 13:27-29, Genesis 50:20, Psalms 76:10, Matthew 26:24, Matthew 26:54, Luke 22:22, Luke 24:44-46, 1 Peter 2:7, 1 Peter 2:8
and: Job 12:13, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 53:10, Ephesians 1:11, Hebrews 6:17
Reciprocal: Genesis 37:8 - reign over us Exodus 14:3 - Pharaoh Leviticus 16:9 - upon which Deuteronomy 31:21 - I know 2 Samuel 24:1 - moved 1 Kings 12:15 - the cause 1 Kings 16:7 - because he killed him 2 Kings 19:25 - Hast thou not 2 Chronicles 10:15 - the cause 2 Chronicles 22:11 - she slew him not 2 Chronicles 25:16 - determined Job 1:21 - taken away Psalms 17:13 - thy Psalms 33:11 - The counsel Psalms 35:3 - stop Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Psalms 94:21 - gather Proverbs 19:21 - nevertheless Ecclesiastes 3:14 - whatsoever Ecclesiastes 5:8 - matter Isaiah 14:24 - Surely Isaiah 23:9 - Lord Isaiah 37:26 - how I Isaiah 45:7 - I make Peace Isaiah 46:11 - the man Jeremiah 25:28 - Ye Jeremiah 49:20 - the counsel Jeremiah 50:45 - hear Daniel 4:35 - and he Daniel 11:36 - for Amos 3:6 - shall there Habakkuk 3:14 - they Zechariah 6:1 - and the Matthew 8:32 - Go Matthew 20:18 - and the Matthew 21:38 - This Matthew 27:62 - the chief priests Mark 9:31 - The Son Mark 11:27 - the chief Luke 9:44 - for Luke 19:14 - General Luke 23:11 - Herod Luke 24:20 - General John 3:14 - even John 11:47 - gathered John 19:11 - Thou Acts 12:4 - intending Acts 13:29 - when Romans 3:25 - set forth Romans 9:19 - Why doth 2 Corinthians 13:8 - General Ephesians 1:9 - purposed Philemon 1:15 - General Revelation 17:13 - shall Revelation 17:17 - God hath
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For to do whatsoever thy hand,.... It was not the end of their gathering together against Christ, or it was not their intention and design, to fulfil the purposes and decrees of God, but to fulfil their own lusts, and satiate their rage and malice against him; but it was so in the event, according to the wise disposal of providence, that by their gathering together, by their consultations and conspiracies, they brought about what God in his everlasting council had decreed. By "the hand" of the Lord here is not meant, the grace and favour of God; or the power and providence of God; or his word of precept, his revealed will; but his secret will, the counsel of his will, the hidden purpose of his heart, the wise consultation of his mind, which is formed according to his infinite wisdom: so in 2 Samuel 14:19 it is said, "is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this?" that is, the head of Joab, the wise counsel of Joab; and so the Jewish writers interpret it, עצתו, "his counsel" o: and so the word is explained here immediately; for it follows,
and thy counsel determined before to be done: God's decrees are from eternity; there is nothing comes to pass in time but what he has beforetime determined should be done, either by effecting it himself, or doing it by others, or suffering it to be done, as in the case here. Whatever was done to Christ, either by Jews or Gentiles, by Herod or Pontius Pilate, was according to the secret will of God, the covenant he made with Christ, and the council of peace that was between them both: what they wickedly did, God designed for good, and hereby brought about the redemption and salvation of his people: this neither makes God the author of sin, nor excuses the sinful actions of men, or infringes the liberty of their wills in acting.
o Kimchi in loc. & R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 36. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For to do ... - See the notes on Acts 2:23; Acts 3:18. The facts which are brought to view in these verses are among the most remarkable on record. They are briefly these:
- That the Jewish rulers were opposed to the Messiah, and slew him.
(2)That the very people to whom he came, and for whose benefit he labored, joined in the opposition, so that it became the act of a united people.
(3)That the Romans, who were there as a sort of representation of all pagan nations, were easily prevailed on to join in the persecution, and to become the executioners.
(4)That thus opposite factions, and dissimilar and prejudiced people, became united in opposing the Messiah.
(5)That the rulers of the Roman people, the emperors, the statesmen, the philosophers, and the rulers of other nations, united to oppose the gospel, and brought all the power of persecution to stay its progress.
(6)That the people of the empire, the mass of people, were easily prevailed upon to join in the persecution, and to endeavor to arrest its progress. It may be added,
- That the gospel has encountered similar difficulties and opposition wherever it has been faithfully presented to the attention of people. It has become a very serious question why this has been; on what pretence this opposition has been vindicated, or how it can be accounted for - a question which it is of as much importance for the infidel as for the Christian to settle. We know that accusations of the corrupt lives of the early Christians were freely circulated, and that most gross accounts of their scandalous conduct were propagated by those who chose to persecute them. (See Lardner’s “Credibility.”) But such accounts are not now believed, and it is not certain that they were ever seriously believed by the rulers of the pagan people. It is certain that it was not on things account that the first opposition arose to Christ and his religion.
It is not proper here to enter into an examination of the causes of this opposition. We may state the outlines, however, in few words:
(1) The Jewish rulers were mortified, humbled, and moved with envy, that one so poor and despised should claim to be the Messiah. They had expected a Messiah of a different rank and character; and all their prejudices rose at once against his claims to this high office, Matthew 27:18; Mark 15:10.
(2) The common people, disposed extensively to acknowledge his claims, were urged on by the enraged and vindictive priests to demand his death, Matthew 27:20.
(3) Pilate was pressed on against his will by the impetuous and enraged multitude to deliver one whom he regarded as innocent.
(4) The Christian religion, in its advances, struck at once at the whole fabric of superstition in the Roman empire and throughout the world. It did not, like other religions, ask a place amidst the religions already existing. It was exclusive in its claims. It denounced all other systems as idolatry or superstition, and sought to overthrow them. Those religions were interwoven with all the habits of the people; they were connected with all the departments of the state; they gave occupation to a vast number of priests and other officer who obtained their livelihood by the existing superstitions, and who brought, of course, all the supposed sacredness of their character to support them. A religion which attempted to overthrow the whole fabric, therefore, at once excited all their malice. The monarchs whose thrones were based on the existing state of things, and the people who venerated the religion of their ancestors, would be opposed to the new system.
(5) Christianity was despised. It was regarded as one form of the superstition of the Jews, and there were no people who were regarded with so much contempt by other nations as the Jews. The writings of the Romans on this point are full proof.
(6) The new religion was opposed to all the crimes of the world. It began its career in a time of eminent wickedness. It plunged at once into the midst of that wickedness; sought the great cities where crimes and pollutions were concentrated, and boldly reproved every form of prevailing impiety. At Athens, at Corinth, at Ephesus, at Rome itself, it denounced the judgment of God against every form of guilt. Whatever may be charged on the apostles, it will not be alleged that they were timid in denouncing the sins of the world. From all these causes it is not wonderful that the early Christians were persecuted. If it be asked.
(7) Why the same religion meets with opposition now in lands that are nominally Christian, it may be remarked:
(a)That the human heart is the same that it always was, opposed to truth and righteousness;
(b)That religion encounters still a host of sins that are opposed to it - pride, envy, malice, passion, and the love of the world;
(c)That there has always been a special opposition in the human heart to receiving salvation as the gift of God through a crucified Redeemer; and,
(d)That all the forms of vice, and lust, and profaneness that exist in the world, are opposed, and ever will be, to a religion of purity, self-denial, and love.
On the whole, we may remark here:
- That the fact that Christianity has been thus opposed, and has triumphed, is no small proof of its divine origin. It has been fairly tried, and still survives. It was well to put it to the rest, and to bring to bear on it everything which had a tendency to crush it, and thus to furnish the highest proof that it is from God.
(2)This religion cannot be destroyed; it will triumph; opposition to it is vain; it will make its way throughout the world; and the path of safety is not to oppose what God is intending to establish in the earth. Sinners who stand opposed to the gospel should tremble and be afraid, for sooner or later they must fall before its triumphant advances. It is not safe to oppose what has already been opposed by kings and rulers in every form, and yet has triumphed. It is not wise to risk one’s eternal welfare on the question of successful opposition to what God has, in so many ages and ways, pledged himself to protect; and when God has solemnly declared that the Son, the Messiah, whom he would set on his holy hill of Zion, should “break” his enemies “with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel,” Psalms 2:9.
