Acts 17:30

17:30 Therefore, although God has overlooked ¹  such times of ignorance, ²  he now commands all people ³  everywhere to repent, ⁴ 

Acts 18:23

18:23 After he spent ⁵  some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia ⁶  and Phrygia, ⁷  strengthening all the disciples.

[17:30]  ¹ tn Or “has deliberately paid no attention to.”

[17:30]  ² tn Or “times when people did not know.”

[17:30]  ³ tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).

[17:30]  ⁴ sn He now commands all people everywhere to repent. God was now asking all mankind to turn to him. No nation or race was excluded.

[18:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “Having spent”; the participle ποιήσας (poihsas) is taken temporally.

[18:23]  ⁶ sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor, or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch. The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[18:23]  ⁷ sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia. See Acts 16:6.