Acts 4:28 - Exposition

To do for for to do, A.V.; foreordained to come to pass for determined before to be done, A.V. To do (for the sentiment, comp. Acts 2:23 ; Acts 3:18 ). They were gathered together for the purpose of executing, their own will, as they thought, but really to fulfil the purpose of God (see also Isaiah 10:5-15 ; Isaiah 37:26 , Isaiah 37:27 ). See here the comfort to the Church of looking upon God as the δεσπότης of the whole earth.