Acts 3:22

3:22 Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey ¹  him in everything he tells you. ² 

Acts 6:14

6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ³  that Moses handed down to us.”

Acts 7:35

7:35 This same ⁴  Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ ⁵  God sent as both ruler and deliverer ⁶  through the hand of the angel ⁷  who appeared to him in the bush.

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 ⁸  – we do not know what has happened to him!’ ⁹ 

Acts 7:44

7:44 Our ancestors ¹⁰  had the tabernacle ¹¹  of testimony in the wilderness, ¹²  just as God ¹³  who spoke to Moses ordered him ¹⁴  to make it according to the design he had seen.

Acts 21:21

21:21 They have been informed about you – that you teach all the Jews now living ¹⁵  among the Gentiles to abandon ¹⁶  Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children ¹⁷  or live ¹⁸  according to our customs.

Acts 26:22

26:22 I have experienced ¹⁹  help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except ²⁰  what the prophets and Moses said ²¹  was going to happen:

[3:22]  ¹ tn Grk “hear,” but the idea of “hear and obey” or simply “obey” is frequently contained in the Greek verb ἀκούω (akouw; see L&N 36.14) and the following context (v. 23) makes it clear that failure to “obey” the words of this “prophet like Moses” will result in complete destruction.

[3:22]  ² sn A quotation from Deut 18:15. By quoting Deut 18:15 Peter declared that Jesus was the eschatological “prophet like [Moses]” mentioned in that passage, who reveals the plan of God and the way of God.

[6:14]  ³ tn Or “practices.”

[7:35]  ⁵ sn This same. The reference to “this one” occurs five times in this speech. It is the way the other speeches in Acts refer to Jesus (e.g., Acts 2:23).

[7:35]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Exod 2:14 (see Acts 7:27). God saw Moses very differently than the people of the nation did. The reference to a ruler and a judge suggests that Stephen set up a comparison between Moses and Jesus, but he never finished his speech to make the point. The reader of Acts, however, knowing the other sermons in the book, recognizes that the rejection of Jesus is the counterpoint.

[7:35]  ⁷ tn Or “liberator.” The meaning “liberator” for λυτρωτήν (lutrwthn) is given in L&N 37.129: “a person who liberates or releases others.”

[7:35]  ⁸ tn Or simply “through the angel.” Here the “hand” could be understood as a figure for the person or the power of the angel himself. The remark about the angel appearing fits the first century Jewish view that God appears to no one (John 1:14-18; Gal 3:19; Deut 33:2 LXX).

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

[7:40]  ⁸ 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.

[7:44]  ⁹ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:44]  ¹⁰ tn Or “tent.”

[7:44]  ¹¹ tn Or “desert.”

[7:44]  ¹² tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:44]  ¹³ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[21:21]  ¹¹ tn BDAG 511 s.v. κατά B.1.a has “τοὺς κ. τὰ ἔθνη ᾿Ιουδαίους the Judeans (dispersed) throughout the nations 21:21.” The Jews in view are not those in Palestine, but those who are scattered throughout the Gentile world.

[21:21]  ¹² tn Or “to forsake,” “to rebel against.” BDAG 120 s.v. ἀποστασία has “ἀποστασίαν διδάσκεις ἀπὸ Μωϋσέως you teach (Judeans) to abandon Moses Ac 21:21.”

[21:21]  ¹³ sn That is, not to circumcise their male children. Biblical references to circumcision always refer to male circumcision.

[21:21]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “or walk.”

[26:22]  ¹³ tn Grk “So experiencing…I stand.” The participle τυχών (tucwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[26:22]  ¹⁴ tn BDAG 311 s.v. ἐκτός 3.b, “functions as prep. w. gen. οὐδὲν ἐ. ὧν nothing except what (cf. 1 Ch 29:3; 2 Ch 17:19; TestNapht. 6:2) Ac 26:22.”

[26:22]  ¹⁵ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.