Acts 4:27

4:27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against ¹  your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ² 

Acts 10:38

10:38 with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, ³  that ⁴  God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He ⁵  went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, ⁶  because God was with him. ⁷ 

Acts 4:26

4:26 The kings of the earth stood together, ⁸ 

and the rulers assembled together,

against the Lord and against his ⁹  Christ.’ ¹⁰ 

Acts 26:23

26:23 that ¹¹  the Christ ¹²  was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people ¹³  and to the Gentiles.” ¹⁴ 

[4:27]  ¹ sn The application of Ps 2:1-2 is that Jews and Gentiles are opposing Jesus. The surprise of the application is that Jews are now found among the enemies of God’s plan.

[4:27]  ² sn A wordplay on “Christ,” v. 26, which means “one who has been anointed.”

[10:38]  ³ sn The somewhat awkward naming of Jesus as from Nazareth here is actually emphatic. He is the key subject of these key events.

[10:38]  ⁴ tn Or “how.” The use of ὡς (Jws) as an equivalent to ὅτι (Joti) to introduce indirect or even direct discourse is well documented. BDAG 1105 s.v. ὡς 5 lists Acts 10:28 in this category.

[10:38]  ⁵ tn Grk “power, who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “he,” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[10:38]  ⁶ tn The translation “healing all who were oppressed by the devil” is given in L&N 22.22.

[10:38]  ⁷ sn See Acts 7:9.

[4:26]  ⁵ tn Traditionally, “The kings of the earth took their stand.”

[4:26]  ⁶ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[4:26]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 2:1-2.

[26:23]  ⁷ tn BDAG 277-78 s.v. εἰ 2 has “marker of an indirect question as content, that…Sim. also (Procop. Soph., Ep. 123 χάριν ἔχειν εἰ = that) μαρτυρόμενος…εἰ παθητὸς ὁ Χριστός testifying…that the Christ was to suffer…Ac 26:23.”

[26:23]  ⁸ tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[26:23]  ⁹ tn That is, to the Jewish people. Grk “the people”; the word “our” has been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[26:23]  ¹⁰ sn Note how the context of Paul’s gospel message about Jesus, resurrection, and light both to Jews and to the Gentiles is rooted in the prophetic message of the OT scriptures. Paul was guilty of following God’s call and preaching the scriptural hope.