Kisah Para Rasul 8:36

8:36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water! What is to stop me ¹  from being baptized?”

Kisah Para Rasul 12:15

12:15 But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” ²  But she kept insisting that it was Peter, ³  and they kept saying, ⁴  “It is his angel!” ⁵ 

Kisah Para Rasul 25:22

25:22 Agrippa ⁶  said to Festus, ⁷  “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, ⁸  “you will hear him.”

[8:36]  ¹ tn Or “What prevents me.” The rhetorical question means, “I should get baptized, right?”

[12:15]  ² sn “You’ve lost your mind!” Such a response to the miraculous is not unusual in Luke-Acts. See Luke 24:11; Acts 26:25. The term μαίνομαι (mainomai) can have the idea of being “raving mad” or “totally irrational” (BDAG 610 s.v.). It is a strong expression.

[12:15]  ³ tn Grk “she kept insisting that the situation was thus” (cf. BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.a). Most translations supply a less awkward English phrase like “it was so”; the force of her insistence, however, is that “it was Peter,” which was the point under dispute.

[12:15]  ⁴ tn The two imperfect tense verbs, διϊσχυρίζετο (diiscurizeto) and ἔλεγον (elegon), are both taken iteratively. The picture is thus virtually a shouting match between Rhoda and the rest of the believers.

[12:15]  ⁵ sn The assumption made by those inside, “It is his angel,” seems to allude to the idea of an attending angel (cf. Gen 48:16 LXX; Matt 18:10; Test. Jacob 1:10).

[25:22]  ⁶ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

[25:22]  ⁷ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

[25:22]  ⁸ tn Grk “said.”