Mazmur 141:2

141:2 May you accept my prayer like incense,

my uplifted hands like the evening offering! ¹ 

Kisah Para Rasul 3:1

Peter and John Heal a Lame Man at the Temple

3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time ²  for prayer, ³  at three o’clock in the afternoon. ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 10:3

10:3 About three o’clock one afternoon ⁵  he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God ⁶  who came in ⁷  and said to him, “Cornelius.”

Kisah Para Rasul 10:30

10:30 Cornelius ⁸  replied, ⁹  “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, ¹⁰  I was praying in my house, and suddenly ¹¹  a man in shining clothing stood before me

[141:2]  ¹ tn Heb “may my prayer be established [like] incense before you, the uplifting of my hands [like] an evening offering.”

[3:1]  ² tn Grk “hour.”

[3:1]  ³ sn Going up to the temple at the time for prayer. The earliest Christians, being of Jewish roots, were still participating in the institutions of Judaism at this point. Their faith in Christ did not make them non-Jewish in their practices.

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” This is calculated from sunrise (Josephus, Ant. 14.4.3 [14.65]; Dan 9:21).

[10:3]  ⁵ tn Grk “at about the ninth hour of the day.” This would be the time for afternoon prayer.

[10:3]  ⁶ tn Or “the angel of God.” Linguistically, “angel of God” is the same in both testaments (and thus, he is either “an angel of God” or “the angel of God” in both testaments). For arguments and implications, see ExSyn 252; M. J. Davidson, “Angels,” DJG, 9; W. G. MacDonald argues for “an angel” in both testaments: “Christology and ‘The Angel of the Lord’,” Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation, 324-35.

[10:3]  ⁷ tn The participles εἰσελθόντα (eiselqonta) and εἰπόντα (eiponta) are accusative, and thus best taken as adjectival participles modifying ἄγγελον (angelon): “an angel who came in and said.”

[10:30]  ⁸ tn Grk “And Cornelius.” 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.

[10:30]  ⁹ tn Grk “said.”

[10:30]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” Again, this is the hour of afternoon prayer.

[10:30]  ¹¹ tn Grk “and behold.” The interjection ἰδού (idou) is difficult at times to translate into English. Here it has been translated as “suddenly” to convey the force of Cornelius’ account of the angel’s appearance.