Kisah Para Rasul 4:21

4:21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising ¹  God for what had happened.

Kisah Para Rasul 11:18

11:18 When they heard this, ²  they ceased their objections ³  and praised ⁴  God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance ⁵  that leads to life even to the Gentiles.” ⁶ 

Kisah Para Rasul 21:20

21:20 When they heard this, they praised ⁷  God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews ⁸  there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers ⁹  of the law. ¹⁰ 

[4:21]  ¹ tn Or “glorifying.”

[11:18]  ² tn Grk “these things.”

[11:18]  ³ tn Or “became silent,” but this would create an apparent contradiction with the subsequent action of praising God. The point, in context, is that they ceased objecting to what Peter had done.

[11:18]  ⁴ tn Or “glorified.”

[11:18]  ⁵ sn Here the summary phrase for responding to the gospel is the repentance that leads to life. Note how the presence of life is tied to the presence of the Spirit (cf. John 4:7-42; 7:37-39).

[11:18]  ⁶ sn In the Greek text the phrase even to the Gentiles is in an emphatic position.

[21:20]  ⁷ tn Or “glorified.”

[21:20]  ⁸ tn Grk “how many thousands there are among the Jews.”

[21:20]  sn How many thousands of Jews. See Acts 2-5 for the accounts of their conversion, esp. 2:41 and 4:4. Estimates of the total number of Jews living in Jerusalem at the time range from 20,000 to 50,000.

[21:20]  ⁹ tn Or “are all zealous for the law.” BDAG 427 s.v. ζηλωτής 1.a.β has “of thing…τοῦ νόμου an ardent observer of the law Ac 21:20.”

[21:20]  ¹⁰ sn That is, the law of Moses. These Jewish Christians had remained close to their Jewish practices after becoming believers (1 Cor 7:18-19; Acts 16:3).