Kisah Para Rasul 15:40-41

15:40 but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended ¹  to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters. ²  15:41 He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening ³  the churches.

Kisah Para Rasul 18:23

18:23 After he spent ⁴  some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia ⁵  and Phrygia, ⁶  strengthening all the disciples.

[15:40]  ¹ tn Or “committed.” BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 2 gives “be commended by someone to the grace of the Lord” as the meaning for this phrase, although “give over” and “commit” are listed as alternatives for this category.

[15:40]  ² tn Grk “by the brothers.” Here it it is highly probable that the entire congregation is in view, not just men, so the translation “brothers and sisters” has been used for the plural ἀδελφῶν (adelfwn),.

[15:41]  ³ sn Strengthening. See Acts 14:22; 15:32; 18:23.

[18:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “Having spent”; the participle ποιήσας (poihsas) is taken temporally.

[18:23]  ⁵ sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor, or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch. The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[18:23]  ⁶ sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia. See Acts 16:6.