Kisah Para Rasul 4:24-26

4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ¹  and said, “Master of all, ²  you who made the heaven, the earth, ³  the sea, and everything that is in them, 4:25 who said by the Holy Spirit through ⁴  your servant David our forefather, ⁵ 

‘Why do the nations ⁶  rage, ⁷ 

and the peoples plot foolish ⁸  things?

4:26 The kings of the earth stood together, ⁹ 

and the rulers assembled together,

against the Lord and against his ¹⁰  Christ.’ ¹¹ 

¹ sn With one mind. Compare Acts 1:14.

² tn Or “Lord of all.”

sn The use of the title Master of all (δεσπότης, despoths) emphasizes that there is a sovereign God who is directing what is taking place.

³ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁴ tn Grk “by the mouth of” (an idiom).

⁵ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

⁶ tn Or “Gentiles.”

⁷ sn The Greek word translated rage includes not only anger but opposition, both verbal and nonverbal. See L&N 88.185.

⁸ tn Or “futile”; traditionally, “vain.”

⁹ tn Traditionally, “The kings of the earth took their stand.”

¹⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.

¹¹ sn A quotation from Ps 2:1-2.