What does Acts 2:23 say about how Christ was delivered?
Acts 2:23 states that Christ was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, yet He was taken by wicked hands and crucified and slain. This delivery was determined in eternity past when the triune God held a counsel and set everything in motion.
Les explains that Peter, preaching to Jews on the day of Pentecost, quoted Acts 2:23 to show Christ was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, yet wicked hands took Him and crucified and slain Him. Les takes this back to eternity past, before anything was called into being, when the triune God held a counsel. The three persons of the Trinity counseled with one another, agreed together, and set everything in motion—creating the universe and placing one little planet like a speck in the midst of it.
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.