Kisah Para Rasul 8:16

8:16 (For the Spirit ¹  had not yet come upon ²  any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ³ 

Kisah Para Rasul 15:14

15:14 Simeon ⁴  has explained ⁵  how God first concerned himself ⁶  to select ⁷  from among the Gentiles ⁸  a people for his name.

[8:16]  ¹ tn Grk “For he”; the referent (the Spirit) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:16]  ² tn Or “fallen on.”

[8:16]  ³ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[15:14]  ⁴ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”

[15:14]  ⁷ tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.

[15:14]  ⁸ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.