to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

Because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there. They hoped that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.