1 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say ¹  that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve ²  me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! ³  For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

Isaiah 49:3

49:3 He said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.” ⁴ 

Ezekiel 28:22

28:22 Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Look, I am against you, ⁵  Sidon,

and I will magnify myself in your midst.

Then they will know that I am the Lord

when I execute judgments on her

and reveal my sovereign power ⁶  in her.

John 12:28

12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, ⁷  “I have glorified it, ⁸  and I will glorify it ⁹  again.”

John 13:31-32

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

13:31 When ¹⁰  Judas ¹¹  had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 13:32 If God is glorified in him, ¹²  God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. ¹³ 

John 14:13

14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, ¹⁴  so that the Father may be glorified ¹⁵  in the Son.

Acts 5:11-13

5:11 Great ¹⁶  fear gripped ¹⁷  the whole church ¹⁸  and all who heard about these things.

The Apostles Perform Miraculous Signs and Wonders

5:12 Now many miraculous signs ¹⁹  and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By ²⁰  common consent ²¹  they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico. ²²  5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, ²³  but the people held them in high honor. ²⁴ 

Acts 5:2

5:2 He ²⁵  kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought ²⁶  only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 1:10

1:10 As ²⁷  they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly ²⁸  two men in white clothing stood near them

Acts 1:1

Jesus Ascends to Heaven

1:1 I wrote ²⁹  the former ³⁰  account, ³¹  Theophilus, ³²  about all that Jesus began to do and teach

Acts 4:17

4:17 But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more ³³  to anyone in this name.”

[2:30]  ¹ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:30]  ² tn Heb “walk about before.”

[2:30]  ³ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

[49:3]  ⁴ sn This verse identifies the servant as Israel. This seems to refer to the exiled nation (cf. 41:8-9; 44:1-2, 21; 45:4; 48:20), but in vv. 5-6 this servant says he has been commissioned to reconcile Israel to God, so he must be distinct from the exiled nation. This servant is an ideal “Israel” who, like Moses of old, mediates a covenant for the nation (see v. 8), leads them out of bondage (v. 9a), and carries out God’s original plan for Israel by positively impacting the pagan nations (see v. 6b). By living according to God’s law, Israel was to be a model of God’s standards of justice to the surrounding nations (Deut 4:6-8). The sinful nation failed, but the servant, the ideal “Israel,” will succeed by establishing justice throughout the earth.

[28:22]  ⁵ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[28:22]  ⁶ tn Or “reveal my holiness.” God’s “holiness” is fundamentally his transcendence as sovereign ruler of the world. The revelation of his authority and power through judgment is in view in this context.

[12:28]  ⁷ tn Or “from the sky” (see note on 1:32).

[12:28]  ⁸ tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[12:28]  ⁹ tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[13:31]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Then when.”

[13:31]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Judas) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:32]  ¹² tc A number of early mss (Ì⁶⁶ א* B C* D L W al as well as several versional witnesses) do not have the words “If God is glorified in him,” while the majority of mss have the clause (so א² A C² Θ Ψ Ë¹³ 33 Ï lat). Although the mss that omit the words are significantly better witnesses, the omission may have occurred because of an error of sight due to homoioteleuton (v. 31 ends in ἐν αὐτῷ [en autw, “in him”], as does this clause). Further, the typical step-parallelism found in John is retained if the clause is kept intact (TCGNT 205-6). At the same time, it is difficult to explain how such a wide variety of witnesses would have accidentally deleted this clause, and arguments for intentional deletion are not particularly convincing. NA²⁷ rightly places the words in brackets, indicating doubt as to their authenticity.

[13:32]  ¹³ tn Or “immediately.”

[14:13]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it.”

[14:13]  ¹⁵ tn Or “may be praised” or “may be honored.”

[5:11]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “And great.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[5:11]  ¹⁷ tn Or “fear came on,” “fear seized”; Grk “fear happened to.”

[5:11]  ¹⁸ sn This is the first occurrence of the term church (ἐκκλησία, ekklhsia) in Acts. It refers to an assembly of people.

[5:12]  ¹⁹ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

[5:12]  ²⁰ tn Grk “And by.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[5:12]  ²¹ tn Or “With one mind.”

[5:12]  ²² tn Or “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”

[5:13]  ²³ tn Or “to associate with them.” The group was beginning to have a controversial separate identity. People were cautious about joining them. The next verse suggests that the phrase “none of the rest” in this verse is rhetorical hyperbole.

[5:13]  ²⁴ tn Or “the people thought very highly of them.”

[5:2]  ²⁵ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[5:2]  ²⁶ tn The participle ἐνέγκας (enenka") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[1:10]  ²⁷ tn Grk “And as.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[1:10]  ²⁸ tn Grk “behold.”

[1:1]  ²⁹ tn Or “produced,” Grk “made.”

[1:1]  ³⁰ tn Or “first.” The translation “former” is preferred because “first” could imply to the modern English reader that the author means that his previous account was the first one to be written down. The Greek term πρῶτος (prwtos) does not necessarily mean “first” in an absolute sense, but can refer to the first in a set or series. That is what is intended here – the first account (known as the Gospel of Luke) as compared to the second one (known as Acts).

[1:1]  ³¹ tn The Greek word λόγος (logos) is sometimes translated “book” (NRSV, NIV) or “treatise” (KJV). A formal, systematic treatment of a subject is implied, but the word “book” may be too specific and slightly misleading to the modern reader, so “account” has been used.

[1:1]  ³² tn Grk “O Theophilus,” but the usage of the vocative in Acts with ὦ (w) is unemphatic, following more the classical idiom (see ExSyn 69).

[4:17]  ³³ tn Or “speak no longer.”