Acts 2:23

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.”

What this verse means

Read Acts 2:23 in the flow of Acts2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Acts2 to see the surrounding context.

Compare translations
BSBPD

“He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
Open the full comparison
Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 2:23 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
  2. Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
  3. Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  4. Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  5. Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
  6. Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  7. Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
  8. Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.
  9. Luke 22:22Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
  10. Luke 22:37For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”
  11. Luke 24:20Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
  12. Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
  13. John 19:24So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.
  14. John 19:31It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
  15. Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
  16. Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
  17. Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
  18. Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
  19. Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
  20. Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
  21. Acts 13:27The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
  22. Acts 15:18that have been known for ages.’
  23. Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
  24. Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Keep exploring
Read Acts 2 in fullTopics & themesBible answers