Acts 3:23

3:23 Every person ¹  who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed ²  from the people.’ ³ 

Acts 4:2

4:2 angry ⁴  because they were teaching the people and announcing ⁵  in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts ⁶  and proclaim ⁷  to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 6:8

Stephen is Arrested

6:8 Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and miraculous signs ⁸  among the people.

Acts 13:24

13:24 Before ⁹  Jesus ¹⁰  arrived, John ¹¹  had proclaimed a baptism for repentance ¹²  to all the people of Israel.

Acts 15:14

15:14 Simeon ¹³  has explained ¹⁴  how God first concerned himself ¹⁵  to select ¹⁶  from among the Gentiles ¹⁷  a people for his name.

Acts 26:17

26:17 I will rescue ¹⁸  you from your own people ¹⁹  and from the Gentiles, to whom ²⁰  I am sending you

¹ tn Grk “every soul” (here “soul” is an idiom for the whole person).

² tn Or “will be completely destroyed.” In Acts 3:23 the verb ἐξολεθρεύω (exoleqreuw) is translated “destroy and remove” by L&N 20.35.

³ sn A quotation from Deut 18:19, also Lev 23:29. The OT context of Lev 23:29 discusses what happened when one failed to honor atonement. One ignored the required sacrifice of God at one’s peril.

⁴ tn Or “greatly annoyed,” “provoked.”

⁵ tn Or “proclaiming.”

⁷ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

⁸ tn Or “speak.”

¹⁰ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context. Here the work of miracles extends beyond the Twelve for the first time.

¹³ tn Grk “John having already proclaimed before his coming a baptism…,” a genitive absolute construction which is awkward in English. A new sentence was begun in the translation at this point.

¹⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the context for clarity, since God is mentioned in the preceding context and John the Baptist in the following clause.

¹⁵ sn John refers here to John the Baptist.

¹⁶ tn Grk “a baptism of repentance”; the genitive has been translated as a genitive of purpose.

¹⁶ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

¹⁷ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

¹⁸ tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”

¹⁹ tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.

²⁰ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.

¹⁹ tn Grk “rescuing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the participle ἐξαιρούμενος (exairoumeno") has been translated as a finite verb and a new sentence started in the translation at the beginning of v. 17.

²⁰ tn That is, from the Jewish people. Grk “the people”; the words “your own” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

²¹ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is probably both the Jews (“your own people”) and the Gentiles, indicating the comprehensive commission Paul received.