Acts 2:23 (WEB)
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Catechism · 2
“Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 15:11; Acts 2:23, 36; 3:13-14; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; 10:39; 13:27-28; I Th 2:14-15.
“Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: "This Jesus (was) delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 2:23.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…was glad; moreover also, my flesh shall rest in hope: because Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou give Thy Holy One to see corruption.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 22–27.
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Gregory the Great
“…counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have by the hands of wicked men crucified and slain; whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of hell (Acts ii. 22–24); in order, to wit, that having been thrown down by a recognition of their cruelty, they might hear the building up of holy preaching by so much…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…then, Christ was announced by the Creator, “who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,” as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,—it was demonstrated that they, by their being…” — editor's note: A supposed quotation of Amos iv. 13. See Oehler’s marginal reference. If so, the reference to Joel is either a slip of Tertullian or a corruption of his text;…
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Catechism §599.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.