Acts 4:28

Those enemies did only what God's hand and plan had foreordained. The crucifixion fulfilled God's sovereign purpose even through wicked human actions.

Cross-references · 19

• Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Gen 50:20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
• Isa 46:10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Matt 26:24The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
• Isa 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• Luke 24:44–46And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
• Acts 3:18But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
• Acts 13:27–29For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
• Job 12:13With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
• Isa 40:13Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
• Matt 26:54But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
• Luke 22:22And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
• Isa 5:19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
• 1 Pet 2:7–8Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
• Eph 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Prov 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Ps 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
• Isa 28:29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
• Heb 6:17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

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