Kisah Para Rasul 7:52

7:52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors ¹  not persecute? ²  They ³  killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, ⁴  whose betrayers and murderers you have now become! ⁵ 

Kisah Para Rasul 11:19

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11:19 Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen ⁶  went as far as ⁷  Phoenicia, ⁸  Cyprus, ⁹  and Antioch, ¹⁰  speaking the message ¹¹  to no one but Jews.

Kisah Para Rasul 24:14

24:14 But I confess this to you, that I worship ¹²  the God of our ancestors ¹³  according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law ¹⁴  and that is written in the prophets.

[7:52]  ¹ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:52]  ² sn Which…persecute. The rhetorical question suggests they persecuted them all.

[7:52]  ³ tn Grk “And they.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[7:52]  ⁴ sn The Righteous One is a reference to Jesus Christ.

[7:52]  ⁵ sn Whose betrayers and murderers you have now become. The harsh critique has OT precedent (1 Kgs 19:10-14; Neh 9:26; 2 Chr 36:16).

[11:19]  ⁶ sn The phrase over Stephen means in connection with Stephen’s death. See Acts 8:1b-3.

[11:19]  ⁷ tn Or “finally reached.” The translations “went as far as” and “finally reached” for διῆλθον (dihlqon) in this verse are given in L&N 15.17.

[11:19]  ⁸ sn Phoenicia was an area along the Mediterranean coast north of Palestine.

[11:19]  ⁹ tn Grk “and Cyprus,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[11:19]  sn Cyprus was a large island in the Mediterranean off the south coast of Asia Minor.

[11:19]  ¹⁰ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). This was probably the third largest city in the Greco-Roman world (Alexandria in Egypt was the second largest, and Rome the largest) and was the seat of government in Syria. Five miles away was a major temple to Artemis, Apollo, and Astarte, major pagan deities.

[11:19]  map For location see JP1 F2; JP2 F2; JP3 F2; JP4 F2.

[11:19]  ¹¹ tn Grk “word.”

[24:14]  ¹² tn Or “serve.”

[24:14]  ¹³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[24:14]  ¹⁴ sn That is, the law of Moses. Paul was claiming that he legitimately worshiped the God of Israel. He was arguing that this amounted to a religious dispute rather than a political one, so that the Roman authorities need not concern themselves with it.