Kisah Para Rasul 13:41

13:41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! ¹ 

For I am doing a work in your days,

a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’” ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 28:21

28:21 They replied, ³  “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there ⁴  and reported or said anything bad about you.

[13:41]  ¹ tn Or “and die!”

[13:41]  ² sn A quotation from Hab 1:5. The irony in the phrase even if someone tells you, of course, is that Paul has now told them. So the call in the warning is to believe or else face the peril of being scoffers whom God will judge. The parallel from Habakkuk is that the nation failed to see how Babylon’s rising to power meant perilous judgment for Israel.

[28:21]  ³ tn Grk “they said to him.”

[28:21]  ⁴ tn Or “arrived”; Grk “come” (“from there” is implied). Grk “coming.” The participle παραγενόμενος (paragenomeno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.