at Pentecost, Christ was “delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). Not by the determinate counsel of the enemies of God. The evil plotters were simply tools in the hands of God to bring about His plan and purpose. “Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people … And consulted that they might take Jesus” (Matthew 26:3, 4). Two things can be said about this group of evil persons plotting to
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