Acts 15:18

15:18 known ¹  from long ago. ² 

Acts 3:21

3:21 This one ³  heaven must ⁴  receive until the time all things are restored, ⁵  which God declared ⁶  from times long ago ⁷  through his holy prophets.

[15:18]  ¹ sn Who makes these things known. The remark emphasizes how God’s design of these things reaches back to the time he declared them.

[15:18]  ² sn An allusion to Isa 45:21.

[3:21]  ³ tn Grk “whom,” continuing the sentence from v. 20.

[3:21]  ⁴ sn The term must used here (δεῖ, dei, “it is necessary”) is a key Lukan term to point to the plan of God and what must occur.

[3:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “until the times of the restoration of all things.” Because of the awkward English style of the extended genitive construction, and because the following relative clause has as its referent the “time of restoration” rather than “all things,” the phrase was translated “until the time all things are restored.”

[3:21]  ⁶ tn Or “spoke.”

[3:21]  ⁷ tn Or “from all ages past.”