Acts 2:23
21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
22 Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
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.
24 But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
25 David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- KJV
- Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- WEB
- him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
- ASV
- him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
- DARBY
- him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by [the] hand of lawless [men], have crucified and slain.
- BLB
- Him delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you⁺ put to death, having crucified by lawless hands—
- ÅB
- han som ble forrådt etter Guds besluttede råd og forutviden, ham slo dere ihjel, idet dere naglet ham til korset ved urettferdiges hender;
- OTB
- Denne mannen ble overgitt til dere etter Guds bestemte plan og forutviten; og dere, med hjelp av lovløse menn, korsfestet og drepte ham.
- B1930
- han som blev forrådt efter Guds besluttede råd og forutviden, ham slo I ihjel, idet I naglet ham til korset ved urettferdiges hender;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 4:28
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
Read in contextGenesis 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.
Read in contextLuke 22:22
Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
Read in contextActs 3:18
But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
Read in contextIsaiah 46:10–11
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.’
Read in context1 Peter 1:20
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
Read in contextActs 3:13–15
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
Read in contextMatthew 26:24
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.”
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