Text -- Acts 22:16 (NET)

22:16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 22:16

¹ tn L&N 67.121 has “to extend time unduly, with the implication of lack of decision – ‘to wait, to delay.’ νῦν τί μέλλεις… ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι ‘what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized’ Ac 22:16.”

² tn Grk “getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.

³ sn The expression have your sins washed away means “have your sins purified” (the washing is figurative).

⁴ sn The expression calling on his name describes the confession of the believer: Acts 2:17-38, esp. v. 38; Rom 10:12-13; 1 Cor 1:2.