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But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.

The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.