Acts 2:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Being

Ye have

Matthew 27:20

General references

Mark 14:46

Bible References

Being

but thus it is that God has accomplished what he had foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

to effect what thy power and thy wisdom pre-determined to be done.

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

he that does all these things, is the Lord himself that has said it." for the works of God are all known to him from the beginning of the world.

the son of man is going to die, pursuant to the scripture: but wo to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed: it had been better for that man, if he had never been born.

the son of man indeed must die, as it was decreed: but wo to that man by whom he is betrayed.

then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished.

they said therefore among themselves, let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: so that the scripture was fulfilled, which said, "they parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots." this was what the soldiers actually did.

" I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:

O the depth of the divine goodness, wisdom, and contrivance! how impenetrable are his decrees, and his ways past finding out!

who was destin'd before the creation of the world, tho' 'tis of late only that he has appear'd, upon your account:

and which the architects rejected, will be an occasion to the incredulous of their stumbling, and bruising themselves thereby:

For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

Ye have

the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and renounced in opposition to Pilate, who was determined to let him go.

and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you entirely recover'd.

the God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, and hanged on a tree.

was there ever any prophet whom your fathers did not persecute? have they not slain those who predicted the coming of that just person whom you have so lately betrayed and murder'd?

but the chief priests and senators persuaded the people to demand Barabbas, and put to death Jesus.

General references

and they violently laid hands on him and secured him.