Acts 7:49

7:49 ‘Heaven is my throne,

and earth is the footstool for my feet.

What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,

or what is my resting place? ¹ 

Acts 10:30

10:30 Cornelius ²  replied, ³  “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, ⁴  I was praying in my house, and suddenly ⁵  a man in shining clothing stood before me

Acts 13:22

13:22 After removing him, God ⁶  raised up ⁷  David their king. He testified about him: ⁸  ‘I have found David ⁹  the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, ¹⁰  who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ ¹¹ 

[7:49]  ¹ sn What kind…resting place? The rhetorical questions suggest mere human beings cannot build a house to contain God.

[10:30]  ² tn Grk “And Cornelius.” 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.

[10:30]  ³ tn Grk “said.”

[10:30]  ⁴ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” Again, this is the hour of afternoon prayer.

[10:30]  ⁵ tn Grk “and behold.” The interjection ἰδού (idou) is difficult at times to translate into English. Here it has been translated as “suddenly” to convey the force of Cornelius’ account of the angel’s appearance.

[13:22]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:22]  ⁴ sn The expression raised up refers here to making someone king. There is a wordplay here: “raising up” refers to bringing someone onto the scene of history, but it echoes with the parallel to Jesus’ resurrection.

[13:22]  ⁵ tn Grk “about whom.” The relative pronoun (“whom”) was replaced by the pronoun “him” 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. The verb εἶπεν (eipen) has not been translated (literally “he said testifying”) because it is redundant when combined with the participle μαρτυρήσας (marturhsa", “testifying”). Instead the construction of verb plus participle has been translated as a single English verb (“testified”).

[13:22]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Ps 89:20.

[13:22]  ⁷ sn A quotation from 1 Sam 13:14.

[13:22]  ⁸ tn Or “who will perform all my will,” “who will carry out all my wishes.”