[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.
