Discovery Box| (0.69424825806452) | (Luk 24:48) |
1 sn You are witnesses. This becomes a key concept of testimony in Acts. See Acts 1:8. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Luk 24:51) |
4 tn For the translation of ἀνεφέρετο (anefereto) as “was taken up” see BDAG 75 s.v. ἀναφέρω 1. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 1:36) |
1 sn This section (1:35-51) is joined to the preceding by the literary expedient of repeating the Baptist’s testimony about Jesus being the Lamb of God (1:36, cf. 1:29). This repeated testimony (1:36) no longer has revelatory value in itself, since it has been given before; its purpose, instead, is to institute a chain reaction which will bring John the Baptist’s disciples to Jesus and make them Jesus’ own disciples. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 1:41) |
3 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. See the note on Christ in 1:20. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 2:20) |
3 sn According to Josephus (Ant. 15.11.1 [15.380]), work on this temple was begun in the 18th year of Herod the Great’s reign, which would have been ca. 19 |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 4:35) |
2 tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 4:42) |
1 tn Or “this.” The Greek pronoun can mean either “this one” or “this” (BDAG 740 s.v. οὗτος 1). |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 7:42) |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 18:3) |
3 tn The words “to the orchard” are not in the Greek text but are repeated from v. 1 for clarity. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Joh 19:30) |
2 tn Or “It is accomplished,” “It is finished,” or “It is ended.” See tn on John 13:1. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 6:5) |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 7:50) |
2 sn A quotation from Isa 66:1-2. If God made the heavens, how can a human building contain him? |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 8:3) |
3 tn BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 1.b has “εἰς φυλακήν put in prison Ac 8:3.” |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 11:19) |
1 sn The phrase over Stephen means in connection with Stephen’s death. See Acts 8:1b-3. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 11:19) |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 11:26) |
6 sn The term Christians appears only here, in Acts 26:28, and 1 Pet 4:16 in the NT. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 11:27) |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 12:18) |
1 tn BDAG 436 s.v. ἡμέρα 1.a has “day is breaking” for ἡμέρα γίνεται (Jhmera ginetai) in this verse. |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 13:1) |
| (0.69424825806452) | (Act 13:14) |
