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

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.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

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,