Kisah Para Rasul 3:3

3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, ¹  he asked them for money. ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 15:14

15:14 Simeon ³  has explained ⁴  how God first concerned himself ⁵  to select ⁶  from among the Gentiles ⁷  a people for his name.

[3:3]  ¹ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[3:3]  sn See the note on the phrase the temple courts in the previous verse.

[3:3]  ² tn Grk “alms.” See the note on the word “money” in the previous verse.

[15:14]  ³ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

[15:14]  ⁴ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

[15:14]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.