Acts 1:5

1:5 For ¹  John baptized with water, but you ²  will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 2:15

2:15 In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, ³  for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. ⁴ 

Acts 3:14

3:14 But you rejected ⁵  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

Acts 4:7

4:7 After ⁶  making Peter and John ⁷  stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name ⁸  did you do this?”

Acts 5:30

5:30 The God of our forefathers ⁹  raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn In the Greek text v. 5 is a continuation of the previous sentence, which is long and complicated. In keeping with the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² tn The pronoun is plural in Greek.

³ tn Grk “These men are not drunk, as you suppose.”

⁴ tn Grk “only the third hour.”

⁵ tn Or “denied,” “disowned.”

⁷ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new sentence is begun in the translation at the beginning of v. 7.

⁸ tn Grk “making them”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ sn By what name. The issue of the “name” comes up again here. This question, meaning “by whose authority,” surfaces an old dispute (see Luke 20:1-8). Who speaks for God about the ancient faith?

⁹ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

¹⁰ tn Or “by crucifying him” (“hang on a tree” is by the time of the first century an idiom for crucifixion). The allusion is to the judgment against Jesus as a rebellious figure, appealing to the language of Deut 21:23. The Jewish leadership has badly “misjudged” Jesus.