According to Acts 2:23, what delivered Jesus to be crucified?
Acts 2:23 states Jesus was delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. That determinate counsel is God's predetermined plan, described as a meeting of the minds, which the context identifies as the work of the Trinity.
Les explains that Acts 2:23 uses the same kind of language as Ephesians 1:11, where believers are predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. He points out that Jesus was delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. A counsel is a meeting of the minds, and because it is plural, the determinate meeting of the minds was the Trinity. Les also says God has predetermined everything.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
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Why was Jesus crucified according to Acts 2:23?
Jesus was delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, yet was taken and crucified by wicked hands.