Kisah Para Rasul 14:22

14:22 They strengthened ¹  the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue ²  in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom ³  of God through many persecutions.” ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 20:22-23

20:22 And now, ⁵  compelled ⁶  by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem ⁷  without knowing what will happen to me there, ⁸  20:23 except ⁹  that the Holy Spirit warns ¹⁰  me in town after town ¹¹  that ¹²  imprisonment ¹³  and persecutions ¹⁴  are waiting for me.

[14:22]  ¹ tn Grk “to Antioch, strengthening.” Due to the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was started here. This participle (ἐπιστηρίζοντες, episthrizonte") and the following one (παρακαλοῦντες, parakalounte") have been translated as finite verbs connected by the coordinating conjunction “and.”

[14:22]  ² sn And encouraged them to continue. The exhortations are like those noted in Acts 11:23; 13:43. An example of such a speech is found in Acts 20:18-35. Christianity is now characterized as “the faith.”

[14:22]  ³ sn This reference to the kingdom of God clearly refers to its future arrival.

[14:22]  ⁴ tn Or “sufferings.”

[20:22]  ⁵ tn Grk “And now, behold.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Grk “bound.”

[20:22]  ⁷ sn This journey to Jerusalem suggests a parallel between Paul and Jesus, since the “Jerusalem journey” motif figures so prominently in Luke’s Gospel (9:51-19:44).

[20:22]  ⁸ tn BDAG 965 s.v. συναντάω 2 has τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ συναντήσοντα ἐμοὶ μὴ εἰδώς without knowing what will happen to me there Ac 20:22.”

[20:23]  ⁹ tn BDAG 826 s.v. πλήν 1.d has “πλὴν ὅτι except that…Ac 20:23.”

[20:23]  ¹⁰ tn The verb διαμαρτύρομαι (diamarturomai) can mean “warn” (BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “solemnly urge, exhort, warn…w. dat. of pers. addressed”), and this meaning better fits the context here, although BDAG categorizes Acts 20:23 under the meaning “testify of, bear witness to” (s.v. 1).

[20:23]  ¹¹ tn The Greek text here reads κατὰ πόλιν (kata polin).

[20:23]  ¹² tn Grk “saying that,” but the participle λέγον (legon) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[20:23]  ¹³ tn Grk “bonds.”

[20:23]  ¹⁴ tn Or “troubles,” “suffering.” See Acts 19:21; 21:4, 11.