Commenting on this "proof-text" for the Reformed understanding of predestination, Gregory Boyd wrote:
Acts 4:27-28, "Both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and
the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus . . .
to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.”
This passage tells us that Herod, Pilate, the Gentiles and
the peoples of Israel carried out God's predestined plan, not that they were
individually predestined to carry out God's plan. That Jesus was
going to be killed was settled ahead of time; who would kill him was not. (Gregory A. Boyd, Satan
and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy [Downers
Grove, Illin.: IVP Academic, 2001, 412)
