Acts 4:28 “They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would…”

Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

World English Bible

to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.

American Standard Version

to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass.

Geneva Bible 1599

To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.

Darby Translation

to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.

Young's Literal Translation

to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

Bible in Basic English

To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

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Cross references

“to do”

Acts 2:23 Genesis 50:20 Matthew 26:24 Acts 3:18 Acts 13:27–29 Luke 24:44–46

Acts 2:23 · BSB

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Genesis 50:20 · BSB

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Matthew 26:24 · BSB

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

Acts 3:18 · BSB

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

Acts 13:27–29 · BSB

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Luke 24:44–46 · BSB

Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

“and”

Isaiah 46:10 Isaiah 53:10 Job 12:13 Proverbs 21:30 Isaiah 5:19 Isaiah 28:29

Isaiah 46:10 · BSB

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Isaiah 53:10 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Job 12:13 · BSB

Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Proverbs 21:30 · BSB

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 5:19 · BSB

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

Isaiah 28:29 · BSB

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

29And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,

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