John

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.