Acts 15:13-14

15:13 After they stopped speaking, ¹  James replied, ²  “Brothers, listen to me. 15:14 Simeon ³  has explained ⁴  how God first concerned himself ⁵  to select ⁶  from among the Gentiles ⁷  a people for his name.

[15:13]  ¹ tn BDAG 922 s.v. σιγάω 1.b lists this passage under the meaning “stop speaking, become silent.”

[15:13]  ² tn Grk “answered, saying”; the redundant participle λέγων (legwn) has not been translated.

[15:14]  ³ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

[15:14]  ⁴ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

[15:14]  ⁵ 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.”

[15:14]  ⁶ 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.

[15:14]  ⁷ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.