Acts 1:8

1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts ¹  of the earth.”

Acts 3:25

3:25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, ²  saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants ³  all the nations ⁴  of the earth will be blessed.’ ⁵ 

Acts 4:24

4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ⁶  and said, “Master of all, ⁷  you who made the heaven, the earth, ⁸  the sea, and everything that is in them,

Acts 7:40

7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt ⁹  – we do not know what has happened to him!’ ¹⁰ 

Acts 7:49

7:49 ‘Heaven is my throne,

and earth is the footstool for my feet.

What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,

or what is my resting place? ¹¹ 

Acts 13:17

13:17 The God of this people Israel ¹²  chose our ancestors ¹³  and made the people great ¹⁴  during their stay as foreigners ¹⁵  in the country ¹⁶  of Egypt, and with uplifted arm ¹⁷  he led them out of it.

Acts 22:22

The Roman Commander Questions Paul

22:22 The crowd ¹⁸  was listening to him until he said this. ¹⁹  Then ²⁰  they raised their voices and shouted, ²¹  “Away with this man ²²  from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!” ²³ 

Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ²⁴  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself ²⁵  by kicking against the goads.’ ²⁶ 

Acts 27:39

Paul is Shipwrecked

27:39 When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed ²⁷  a bay ²⁸  with a beach, ²⁹  where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

Acts 27:43

27:43 But the centurion, ³⁰  wanting to save Paul’s life, ³¹  prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land, ³² 

[1:8]  ¹ tn Or “to the ends.”

[3:25]  ² tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[3:25]  ³ tn Or “in your offspring”; Grk “in your seed.”

[3:25]  ⁴ tn Or “families.” The Greek word πατριά (patria) can indicate persons of succeeding generations who are related by birth (“lineage,” “family”) but it can also indicate a relatively large unit of people who make up a sociopolitical group and who share a presumed biological descent. In many contexts πατριά is very similar to ἔθνος (eqnos) and λαός (laos). In light of the context of the OT quotation, it is better to translate πατριά as “nations” here.

[3:25]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Gen 22:18.

[4:24]  ³ sn With one mind. Compare Acts 1:14.

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Or “Lord of all.”

[4:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[7:40]  ⁴ tn Or simply “of Egypt.” The phrase “the land of” could be omitted as unnecessary or redundant.

[7:40]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 32:1, 23. Doubt (we do not know what has happened to him) expresses itself in unfaithful action. The act is in contrast to God’s promise in Exod 23:20.

[7:49]  ⁵ sn What kind…resting place? The rhetorical questions suggest mere human beings cannot build a house to contain God.

[13:17]  ⁶ tn Or “people of Israel.”

[13:17]  ⁷ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[13:17]  ⁸ tn That is, in both numbers and in power. The implication of greatness in both numbers and in power is found in BDAG 1046 s.v. ὑψόω 2.

[13:17]  ⁹ tn Or “as resident aliens.”

[13:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or “land.”

[13:17]  ¹¹ sn Here uplifted arm is a metaphor for God’s power by which he delivered the Israelites from Egypt. See Exod 6:1, 6; 32:11; Deut 3:24; 4:34; Ps 136:11-12.

[22:22]  ⁷ tn Grk “They were listening”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:22]  ⁸ tn Grk “until this word.”

[22:22]  ⁹ tn Grk “And.” To indicate the logical sequence, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” here.

[22:22]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and said.”

[22:22]  ¹¹ tn Grk “this one.”

[22:22]  ¹² tn BDAG 491 s.v. καθήκω has “to be appropriate, come/reach to, be proper/fitting…Usu. impers. καθήκει it comes (to someone)…foll. by acc. and inf….οὐ καθῆκεν αὐτὸν ζῆν he should not be allowed to live Ac 22:22.”

[26:14]  ⁸ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

[26:14]  ⁹ tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

[26:14]  ¹⁰ tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.

[27:39]  ⁹ tn Or “observed,” “saw.”

[27:39]  ¹⁰ tn Or “gulf” (BDAG 557 s.v. κόλπος 3).

[27:39]  ¹¹ sn A beach would refer to a smooth sandy beach suitable for landing.

[27:43]  ¹⁰ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[27:43]  ¹¹ tn Or “wanting to rescue Paul.”

[27:43]  ¹² tn BDAG 347 s.v. I. ἔξειμι has “ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν get to land Ac 27:43.”