Kisah Para Rasul 6:14

6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ¹  that Moses handed down to us.”

Kisah Para Rasul 11:12

11:12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers ²  also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

Kisah Para Rasul 19:2

19:2 and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ³  They replied, ⁴  “No, we have not even ⁵  heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Kisah Para Rasul 27:27

27:27 When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven ⁶  across the Adriatic Sea, ⁷  about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. ⁸ 

[6:14]  ¹ tn Or “practices.”

[6:14]  sn Will destroy this place and change the customs. Stephen appears to view the temple as a less central place in light of Christ’s work, an important challenge to Jewish religion, since it was at this time a temple-centered state and religion. Unlike Acts 3-4, the issue here is more than Jesus and his resurrection. Now the impact of his resurrection and the temple’s centrality has also become an issue. The “falseness” of the charge may not be that the witnesses were lying, but that they falsely read the truth of Stephen’s remarks.

[11:12]  ² sn Six witnesses is three times more than what would normally be required. They could confirm the events were not misrepresented by Peter.

[19:2]  ³ tn The participle πιστεύσαντες (pisteusante") is taken temporally.

[19:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “they [said] to him” (the word “said” is implied in the Greek text).

[19:2]  ⁵ tn This use of ἀλλά (alla) is ascensive and involves an ellipsis (BDAG 45 s.v. ἀλλά 3): “No, [not only did we not receive the Spirit,] but also we have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” However, this is lengthy and somewhat awkward in English, and the ascensive meaning can be much more easily represented by including the word “even” after the negation. Apparently these disciples were unaware of the provision of the Spirit that is represented in baptism. The language sounds like they did not know about a Holy Spirit, but this seems to be only linguistic shorthand for not knowing about the Spirit’s presence (Luke 3:15-18). The situation is parallel to that of Apollos. Apollos and these disciples represent those who “complete” their transition to messianic faith as Jews.

[27:27]  ⁶ tn Here “being driven” has been used to translate διαφέρω (diaferw) rather than “drifting,” because it is clear from the attempt to drop anchors in v. 29 that the ship is still being driven by the gale. “Drifting” implies lack of control, but not necessarily rapid movement.

[27:27]  ⁷ sn The Adriatic Sea. They were now somewhere between Crete and Malta.

[27:27]  ⁸ tn Grk “suspected that some land was approaching them.” BDAG 876 s.v. προσάγω 2.a states, “lit. ὑπενόουν προσάγειν τινά αὐτοῖς χώραν they suspected that land was near (lit. ‘approaching them’) Ac 27:27.” Current English idiom would speak of the ship approaching land rather than land approaching the ship.