How was Jesus delivered up to be crucified according to Acts 2:23?
According to Acts 2:23, Jesus was delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. This means God had predetermined it; the Trinity had a determinate meeting of minds, the same counsel and foreknowledge language used elsewhere of God's purpose and will.
Les explains that Acts 2:23 speaks of Jesus of Nazareth being delivered up to be crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. He connects this with Ephesians 1:11, where believers are predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. Les notes that the same word is used in both places. He defines counsel as a meeting of the minds, and because it is plural, he identifies it as the determinate counsel of the Trinity. Thus Jesus' delivery to crucifixion was according to God's predetermined counsel, not mere human action.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: