Kisah Para Rasul 13:41

13:41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! ¹ 

For I am doing a work in your days,

a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’” ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 28:26

28:26 when he said,

‘Go to this people and say,

“You will keep on hearing, ³  but will never understand,

and you will keep on looking, ⁴  but will never perceive.

[13:41]  ¹ tn Or “and die!”

[13:41]  ² sn A quotation from Hab 1:5. The irony in the phrase even if someone tells you, of course, is that Paul has now told them. So the call in the warning is to believe or else face the peril of being scoffers whom God will judge. The parallel from Habakkuk is that the nation failed to see how Babylon’s rising to power meant perilous judgment for Israel.

[28:26]  ³ tn Grk “you will hear with hearing” (an idiom).

[28:26]  ⁴ tn Or “seeing”; Grk “you will look by looking” (an idiom).