Kisah Para Rasul 16:31

16:31 They replied, ¹  “Believe ²  in the Lord Jesus ³  and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Wahyu 3:20

3:20 Listen! ⁴  I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home ⁵  and share a meal with him, and he with me.

[16:31]  ¹ tn Grk “said.”

[16:31]  ² sn Here the summary term of response is a call to believe. In this context it refers to trusting the sovereign God’s power to deliver, which events had just pictured for the jailer.

[16:31]  ³ tc The majority of mss add Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) here (C D E Ψ 1739 Ï sy sa), but the best and earliest witnesses read simply τὸν κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton kurion Ihsoun, “the Lord Jesus”; Ì^74vid א A B 33 81 pc bo). The addition of “Christ” to “Lord Jesus” is an obviously motivated reading. Thus on both external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred.

[3:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “Behold.”

[3:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “come in to him.”

[3:20]  sn The expression in Greek does not mean entrance into the person, as is popularly taken, but entrance into a room or building toward the person. See ExSyn 380-82. Some interpreters understand the door here to be the door to the Laodicean church, and thus a collective or corporate image rather than an individual one.