Amen, the determinate counsel of God
Acts 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,
ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
(Mat 20:18-19, Luke 24:25-27, Mark 9:31, Isaiah 53:1-12, Acts 3:18)
Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:25
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved (Psalm 16:8)
Acts 2:26
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: (Psalm 16:9)
Acts 2:27
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Psalm 16:10)
Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life;
thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
(Psalm 16:11)
Further expounded upon in Acts 13:33-38 as it is in Acts 2:29-36 (next)
Acts 2:29
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David,
that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:30
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him,
that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; (Psalm 132:11)
Acts 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Acts 2:32
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. (Luke 24:48)
Acts 2:33
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted,
and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,
he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself,
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35
Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (Psalm 110:1, Matthew 22:41-46)
Matthew 22:43
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord (as in the above )
No man could answer him Matthew 22:46 The apostles expound on this Acts 2:36
Acts 2:36
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
They knew not the voices of the prophets
Acts 13:27
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.
Acts 13:28
And though they found no cause of death in him,
yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. (Luke 23:14-25)
Acts 13:29
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him,
they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts 13:30
But God raised him from the dead:
Acts 13:31
And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem,
who are his witnesses unto the people.
Acts 13:32
And we declare unto you glad tidings,
how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Acts 13:33
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again;
as it is also written in the second psalm , Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
(Psalm 2:7 being tied in with Heb 5:5-6 & Psalm 110:4 with Heb 8:4 accordingin to the priest for ever)
Acts 13:34
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption,
he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3, see verse 4 also)
Acts 13:35
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm (Psalm 16:18),
Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep,
and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Acts 13:37
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. (Psalm 16:18)
Acts 13:38
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren,
that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
(Luke 23:34, Acts 3:12)
Acts 13:39
And by him all that believe are justified from all things,
from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
The gospel is in Isaiah (even as Philip preached Christ to the eunuch from the same)
being a testimony (as was Moses to the things that would be spoken after.
If we bring back in Isaiah 55:3 the sure mercies of David are given him
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Then here see 'as concerning' this (and on 'what wise' he has said)
Acts 13:34
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption,
he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
Be it known unto you 'therefore'
that through him is preached this
Acts 13:38
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren,
that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Even as the next verse after Isaiah 53:3 states what God has given him for
Isaiah 55:4
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people,
a leader and commander to the people. (John 8:18, Heb 2:10)
As Hebrews expounds upon him as the captain of their salvation
Heb 2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things,
in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Isaiah 55:4
Behold, I have given him for a witness (John 8:18, Rev 1:5)
Rev 1:5
From Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead,
and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
There are some surrounding the same, good to have or be equipped with to show forth Christ that the word of God be glorified in them that hear it according to the pattern laid out.