Acts 4:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The apostles mind not so much second causes in what my Saviour or themselves suffered, but see and acknowledge God in all; who makes a straight line with a crooked stick; and is holy, wise, and good in overruling and permitting the greatest evils; and does deserve to have praise for all things, Ephesians 5:20: see Acts 2:23. Thy hand and thy counsel; thy power and right to dispose of all persons and things; alluding to Leviticus 16:8: as the lot cast for the two goats (the disposing of which being from the Lord, Proverbs 16:33) did determine which of the goats should be sacrificed, and which should escape; so it was not without a Divine disposition, that Christ was made a sin offering for us; though this no way excuses the wicked instruments of his death and suffering.