Catholic Public Domain Version
"to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done. "
— Acts 4:28, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.”
“to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass. ”
“to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.”
“to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.”
“To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.”
“To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.”
“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.”
who, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said: ‘Why have the Gentiles been seething, and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, against the Lord and against his Christ.’
For truly Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, joined together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed
to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done.
And now, O Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to your servants that they may speak your word with all confidence,
by extending your hand in cures and signs and miracles, to be done through the name of your holy Son, Jesus.”
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was moved. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And they were speaking the Word of God with confidence.