Acts 4:19

4:19 But Peter and John replied, ¹  “Whether it is right before God to obey ²  you rather than God, you decide,

Acts 4:26

4:26 The kings of the earth stood together, ³ 

and the rulers assembled together,

against the Lord and against his ⁴  Christ.’ ⁵ 

Acts 4:30

4:30 while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs ⁶  and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Acts 7:56

7:56 “Look!” he said. ⁷  “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Acts 8:12

8:12 But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God ⁸  and the name of Jesus Christ, ⁹  they began to be baptized, ¹⁰  both men and women.

Acts 10:45

10:45 The ¹¹  circumcised believers ¹²  who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished ¹³  that ¹⁴  the gift of the Holy Spirit ¹⁵  had been poured out ¹⁶  even on the Gentiles,

Acts 11:16

11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, ¹⁷  as he used to say, ¹⁸  ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁹ 

Acts 14:9

14:9 This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul ²⁰  stared ²¹  intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,

Acts 14:13

14:13 The priest of the temple ²²  of Zeus, ²³  located just outside the city, brought bulls ²⁴  and garlands ²⁵  to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them. ²⁶ 

Acts 25:21

25:21 But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, ²⁷  I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.” ²⁸ 

[4:19]  ¹ tn Grk “answered and said to them.”

[4:19]  ² 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).

[4:26]  ³ tn Traditionally, “The kings of the earth took their stand.”

[4:26]  ⁴ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[4:26]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 2:1-2.

[4:30]  ⁵ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

[7:56]  ⁷ tn Grk “And he said, ‘Look!’” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here; a new sentence is begun instead.

[8:12]  ⁹ sn The kingdom of God is also what Jesus preached: Acts 1:3. The term reappears in 14:22; 19:8; 28:23, 31.

[8:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[8:12]  ¹¹ tn The imperfect verb ἐβαπτίζοντο (ebaptizonto) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[10:45]  ¹¹ tn Grk “And the.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[10:45]  ¹² tn Or “The Jewish Christians”; Grk “The believers from the circumcision.”

[10:45]  ¹³ sn The Jewish Christians who were with Peter were greatly astonished because they thought the promise of the Spirit would be limited only to those of Israel. God’s plan was taking on fresh dimensions even as it was a reflection of what the prophets had promised.

[10:45]  ¹⁴ tn Or “because.”

[10:45]  ¹⁵ tn That is, the gift consisting of the Holy Spirit. Here τοῦ πνεύματος (tou pneumato") is a genitive of apposition; the gift consists of the Spirit.

[10:45]  ¹⁶ sn The gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out. Compare the account in Acts 2, especially 2:33. Note also Joel 2:17-21 and Acts 11:15-18.

[11:16]  ¹³ sn The word of the Lord is a technical expression in OT literature, often referring to a divine prophetic utterance (e.g., Gen 15:1, Isa 1:10, Jonah 1:1). In the NT it occurs 15 times: 3 times as ῥῆμα τοῦ κυρίου (rJhma tou kuriou; here and in Luke 22:61, 1 Pet 1:25) and 12 times as λόγος τοῦ κυρίου (logo" tou kuriou; Acts 8:25; 13:44, 48, 49; 15:35, 36; 16:32; 19:10, 20; 1 Thess 1:8, 4:15; 2 Thess 3:1). As in the OT, this phrase focuses on the prophetic nature and divine origin of what has been said.

[11:16]  ¹⁴ tn The imperfect verb ἔλεγεν (elegen) is taken as a customary imperfect.

[11:16]  ¹⁵ sn John…Spirit. This remark repeats Acts 1:5.

[14:9]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “speaking, who.” The relative pronoun has been replaced by the noun “Paul,” and a new sentence begun in the translation because an English relative clause would be very awkward here.

[14:9]  ¹⁶ tn Or “looked.”

[14:13]  ¹⁷ tn The words “the temple of” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. The translation “the priest of (the temple/shrine of) Zeus located before the city” is given for this phrase by BDAG 426 s.v. Ζεύς.

[14:13]  ¹⁸ sn See the note on Zeus in the previous verse.

[14:13]  ¹⁹ tn Or “oxen.”

[14:13]  ²⁰ tn Or “wreaths.”

[14:13]  ²¹ tn The words “to them” are not in the Greek text, but are clearly implied by the response of Paul and Barnabas in the following verse.

[25:21]  ¹⁹ tn A designation of the Roman emperor (in this case, Nero). BDAG 917 s.v. σεβαστός states, “ὁ Σεβαστός His Majesty the Emperor Ac 25:21, 25 (of Nero).” It was a translation into Greek of the Latin “Augustus.”

[25:21]  ²⁰ tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).