Acts 2:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦτον, τῇ ὡρισμένῃ βουλῇ καὶ προγνώσει τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἔκδοτον λαβόντες, διὰ χειρῶν ἀνόμων προσπήξαντες ἀνείλετε:

Transliteration

Touton, by the hōrismenē boulē and prognōsei of the Theou, ekdoton labontes, through cheirōn anomōn prospēxantes aneilete:

Grammar Details

• *Touton*: accusative, masculine, singular - this one/him
• *hōrismenē*: perfect passive participle, dative, feminine, singular - having been determined/ordained
• *boulē*: dative, feminine, singular - purpose/plan/counsel
• *prognōsei*: dative, feminine, singular - foreknowledge
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *ekdoton*: accusative, masculine, singular - delivered over/handed over
• *labontes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having taken/received
• *cheirōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - hands
• *anomōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - lawless/wicked
• *prospēxantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having fastened/nailed to
• *aneilete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you killed/put to death

Word Meanings

• *hōrismenē*: determined/ordained/appointed/fixed
• *boulē*: purpose/plan/counsel/will/design
• *prognōsei*: foreknowledge/prescience
• *ekdoton*: delivered over/handed over/betrayed
• *labontes*: taking/seizing/receiving
• *anomōn*: lawless/wicked/without law/gentiles
• *prospēxantes*: fastening/nailing to/fixing upon
• *aneilete*: killed/put to death/destroyed

Referenced Verses

• Luke 22:22 : 22 ‹And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!›
• Acts 3:18 : 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
• Acts 4:28 : 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Matt 26:24 : 24 ‹The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.›
• Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
• Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it.
• 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
• Gen 50:20 : 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Acts 13:27 : 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].
• Rom 11:33-36 : 33 ¶ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.
• Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
• Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
• Luke 22:37 : 37 ‹For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.›
• Luke 24:20 : 20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
• John 19:24 : 24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
• John 19:31-37 : 31 ¶ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
• Acts 3:13-15 : 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let [him] go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
• Acts 5:30 : 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
• Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Acts 4:10-11 : 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
• Matt 27:20-25 : 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. 22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? [They] all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it]. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
• Luke 24:44-46 : 44 And he said unto them, ‹These› [are] ‹the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and› [in] ‹the prophets, and› [in] ‹the psalms, concerning me.› 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, ‹Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:›
• Isa 10:6-7 : 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Acts 15:18 : 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
• Rom 4:17 : 17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
• 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.