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Acts 4:28

God's will and calling

26 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

27 In 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.

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

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

30 as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

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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.

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BSB
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
KJV
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
WEB
to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.
ASV
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.
DARBY
to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.
BLB
to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predetermined to happen.
ÅB
for å gjøre det som din hånd og ditt råd forut hadde besluttet skulle skje.
OTB
De utførte det som din makt og vilje hadde bestemt på forhånd skulle skje.
B1930
for å gjøre det som din hånd og ditt råd forut hadde besluttet skulde skje.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 2:23

    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.

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  • 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.’

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  • 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.

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  • Matthew 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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  • Isaiah 53:10

    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 hand.

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  • Luke 24:44–46

    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.”

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  • Acts 13:27–29

    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.

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  • Acts 3:18

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

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