It is therefore not a case, as some scholars have maintained, of Luke blaming the Jews alone for the crucifixion. For both Luke and the early believers, that was a crime shared by the leaders of both ethnic groups. Yet God, with infinite wisdom and power, has used their evil actions to fulfill his own predestined plan (4:28; for earlier mentions of God’s foreknowledge and plan for the death and resurrection of Jesus, see 2:23; 3:18). This understanding of the situation leads the Jerusalem believers