Text -- Acts 15:23 (NET)

15:23 They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 15:23

¹ tn Grk “writing by their hand” (an idiom for sending a letter).

² tn Grk “The apostles.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

³ tn Grk “brothers,” but “your” is supplied to specify the relationship, since without it “brothers” could be understood as vocative in English.

⁴ tn Grk “to the brothers who are from the Gentiles.”

⁵ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia).

⁶ tn Grk “and Syria,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.