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Acts 2:23 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:Acts 2:23 · King James Version
Acts 2:23 in context
21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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Key words (Strong's)
- foreknowledgeprognōsisforeknowledge, forethought, pre-arrangementG4268 →
- determinatehorizōto define, to mark out the boundaries or limits , to determine, appoint, that which has…G3724 →
- deliveredekdotosgiven over, delivered up, to enemies, or to the power, the will, of some oneG1560 →
- crucifiedprospēgnymito fastenG4362 →
- counselboulēcounsel, purposeG1012 →
- wickedanomosdestitute of law, of the Gentiles, departing from the law, a violator of the law…G459 →
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We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-36