Psalms 24:7-10

24:7 Look up, ¹  you gates!

Rise up, ²  you eternal doors!

Then the majestic king ³  will enter! ⁴ 

24:8 Who is this majestic king? ⁵ 

The Lord who is strong and mighty!

The Lord who is mighty in battle!

24:9 Look up, you gates!

Rise up, you eternal doors!

Then the majestic king will enter!

24:10 Who is this majestic king?

The Lord who commands armies! ⁶ 

He is the majestic king! (Selah)

Acts 3:16-17

3:16 And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ ⁷  name, ⁸  his very name has made this man – whom you see and know – strong. The ⁹  faith that is through Jesus ¹⁰  has given him this complete health in the presence ¹¹  of you all. 3:17 And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, ¹²  as your rulers did too.

Acts 7:2

7:2 So he replied, ¹³  “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather ¹⁴  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

James 2:1

Prejudice and the Law of Love

2:1 My brothers and sisters, ¹⁵  do not show prejudice ¹⁶  if you possess faith ¹⁷  in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “lift up your heads.” The gates of the Lord’s dwelling place are here personified. The idiom “lift up the head” often means “be confident, bold” (see Judg 8:28; Job 10:15; Ps 83:2; Zech 1:21).

² tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”

³ tn Or “king of glory.”

⁴ tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.

⁵ sn Who is this majestic king? Perhaps the personified gates/doors ask this question, in response to the command given in v. 7.

⁶ tn Traditionally, “the Lord of hosts,” a title which here pictures the Lord as a mighty warrior-king who leads armies into battle.

⁷ tn Grk “in his name”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn Here is another example of appeal to the person by mentioning the name. See the note on the word name in 3:6.

⁹ tn Grk “see and know, and the faith.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation and καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated.

¹⁰ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Or “in full view.”

¹² sn The ignorance Peter mentions here does not excuse them from culpability. It was simply a way to say “you did not realize the great mistake you made.”

¹³ tn Grk “said.”

¹⁴ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

¹⁶ tn Or “partiality.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “do not have faith with personal prejudice,” with emphasis on the last phrase.

¹⁸ tn Grk “our Lord Jesus Christ of glory.” Here δόξης (doxhs) has been translated as an attributive genitive.