Acts 4:28 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 4:28

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Leo the Great

Sermon LXVII. (on the Passion, XVI.: Delivered on the Sunday.) (461)

Did then the wickedness of Christ's persecutors spring from God's plan, and was that unsurpassable crime prefaced and set in motion by the hand of God? Clearly we must not think this of the highest Justice: that which was fore-known in respect of the Jews' malice is far different, indeed quite contrary to what was ordained in respect of Christ's Passion. Their desire to slay Him did not proceed from the same source as His to die: nor were their atrocious crime and the Redeemer's endurance the offspring of One Spirit.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The sense is, but they could do no more than thou wast pleased to permit, according to thy determinate counsel, to save mankind by the sufferings of thy Son. And what was needful for this end, thou didst before determine to permit to be done.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For to do ... - See the notes on Act 2:23; Act 3:18. The facts which are brought to view in these verses are among the most remarkable on record. They are briefly these: (1) 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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ποιῆσαι	poiēsai	to do	G4160 →
ὅσα	hosa	as much as	G3745 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
χείρ	cheir	hand	G5495 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
βουλή	boulē	purpose	G1012 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
προώρισεν	proōrisen	determined beforehand	G4309 →
γενέσθαι.	genesthai	to happen.	G1096 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 50:20
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.
leads to
- Romans 8:28
  And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- Psalms 119:71
  It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
- Genesis 45:5–8
  And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
- Genesis 37:18–20
  Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Through
Isaiah 46:10
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
leads to
- Proverbs 19:21
  Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
- Psalms 33:11
  The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
- Ephesians 1:9–11
  And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- Isaiah 43:13
  Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts