Kisah Para Rasul 2:1

The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost

2:1 Now ¹  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Kisah Para Rasul 2:25

2:25 For David says about him,

‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, ² 

for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

Kisah Para Rasul 2:34

2:34 For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,

‘The Lord said to my lord,

“Sit ³  at my right hand

Kisah Para Rasul 3:10

3:10 and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations ⁴  at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement ⁵  at what had happened to him.

Kisah Para Rasul 4:35

4:35 and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds ⁶  were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

Kisah Para Rasul 4:37

4:37 sold ⁷  a field ⁸  that belonged to him and brought the money ⁹  and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

Kisah Para Rasul 7:6

7:6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your ¹⁰  descendants will be foreigners ¹¹  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. ¹² 

Kisah Para Rasul 15:36

Paul and Barnabas Part Company

15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return ¹³  and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord ¹⁴  to see how they are doing.” ¹⁵ 

Kisah Para Rasul 15:41

15:41 He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening ¹⁶  the churches.

Kisah Para Rasul 17:22

17:22 So Paul stood ¹⁷  before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious ¹⁸  in all respects. ¹⁹ 

Kisah Para Rasul 23:2

23:2 At that ²⁰  the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near ²¹  Paul ²²  to strike ²³  him on the mouth.

Kisah Para Rasul 24:19

24:19 But there are some Jews from the province of Asia ²⁴  who should be here before you and bring charges, ²⁵  if they have anything against me.

Kisah Para Rasul 28:1

Paul on Malta

28:1 After we had safely reached shore, ²⁶  we learned that the island was called Malta. ²⁷ 

Kisah Para Rasul 28:11

Paul Finally Reaches Rome

28:11 After three months we put out to sea ²⁸  in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” ²⁹  as its figurehead. ³⁰ 

[2:1]  ¹ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style does not.

[2:25]  ² tn Or “always before me.”

[2:34]  ³ sn Sit at my right hand. The word “sit” alludes back to the promise of “seating one on his throne” in v. 30.

[3:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “alms,” but this term is not in common use today, so the closest modern equivalent, “donations,” is used instead. The idea is that of a donation to charity.

[3:10]  ⁵ sn Amazement is a frequent response to miracles of Jesus or the apostles. These took the ancients by as much surprise as they would people today. But in terms of response to what God is doing, amazement does not equal faith (Luke 4:36; 5:9, 26; 7:16).

[4:35]  ⁶ tn Grk “It” (or “They,” plural). The referent of the understood pronoun subject, the proceeds from the sales, of the verb διεδίδετο (diedideto) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:37]  ⁷ tn Grk “selling a field that belonged to him, brought” The participle πωλήσας (pwlhsa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[4:37]  ⁸ tn Or “a farm.”

[4:37]  ⁹ tn Normally a reference to actual coins (“currency”). See L&N 6.68.

[7:6]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “that his”; the discourse switches from indirect to direct with the following verbs. For consistency the entire quotation is treated as second person direct discourse in the translation.

[7:6]  ¹¹ tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

[7:6]  ¹² sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.

[15:36]  ¹³ tn Grk “Returning let us visit.” The participle ἐπιστρέψαντες (epistreyante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[15:36]  ¹⁴ tn See the note on the phrase “word of the Lord” in v. 35.

[15:36]  ¹⁵ tn BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.b has “how they are” for this phrase.

[15:41]  ¹⁶ sn Strengthening. See Acts 14:22; 15:32; 18:23.

[17:22]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “standing…said.” The participle ζηλώσαντες (zhlwsante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[17:22]  ¹⁸ tn The term δεισιδαιμονεστέρους (deisidaimonesterou") is difficult. On the one hand it can have the positive sense of “devout,” but on the other hand it can have the negative sense of “superstitious” (BDAG 216 s.v. δεισιδαίμων). As part of a laudatory introduction (the technical rhetorical term for this introduction was capatatio), the term is probably positive here. It may well be a “backhanded” compliment, playing on the ambiguity.

[17:22]  ¹⁹ tn BDAG 513 s.v. κατά B.6 translates the phrase κατὰ πάντα (kata panta) as “in all respects.”

[23:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “and” (δέ, de); the phrase “at that” has been used in the translation to clarify the cause and effect relationship.

[23:2]  ²¹ tn BDAG 778 s.v. παρίστημι/παριστάνω 2.b.α has “οἱ παρεστῶτες αὐτῷ those standing near him Ac 23:2.”

[23:2]  ²² tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:2]  ²³ tn Or “hit” (‘strike’ maintains the wordplay with the following verse). The action was probably designed to indicate a rejection of Paul’s claim to a clear conscience in the previous verse.

[24:19]  ²⁴ tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.

[24:19]  ²⁵ tn BDAG 533 s.v. κατηγορέω 1 states, “nearly always as legal t.t.: bring charges in court.” L&N 33.427 states for κατηγορέω (kathgorew), “to bring serious charges or accusations against someone, with the possible connotation of a legal or court context – ‘to accuse, to bring charges.’”

[24:19]  sn Who should be here…and bring charges. Paul was asking, where were those who brought about his arrest and claimed he broke the law? His accusers were not really present. This subtle point raised the issue of injustice.

[28:1]  ²⁶ tn Grk “We having been brought safely through” [to land] (same verb as 27:44). The word “shore” is implied, and the slight variations in translation from 27:44 have been made to avoid redundancy in English. The participle διασωθέντες (diaswqente") has been taken temporally.

[28:1]  ²⁷ sn Malta is an island (known by the same name today) in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily. The ship had traveled 625 mi (1,000 km) in the storm.

[28:1]  map For location see JP4 A3.

[28:11]  ²⁸ tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4, “as a nautical t.t. (ἀ. τὴν ναῦν put a ship to sea), mid. or pass. ἀνάγεσθαι to begin to go by boat, put out to sea.”

[28:11]  ²⁹ tn Or “the ‘Twin Gods’”; Grk “the Dioscuri” (a joint name for the pagan deities Castor and Pollux).

[28:11]  sn That had the ‘Heavenly Twins’ as its figurehead. The twin brothers Castor and Pollux, known collectively as the Dioscuri or ‘Heavenly Twins,’ were the twin sons of Zeus and Leda according to Greek mythology. The Alexandrian ship on which Paul and his companions sailed from Malta had a carved emblem or figurehead of these figures, and they would have been the patron deities of the vessel. Castor and Pollux were the “gods of navigation.” To see their stars was considered a good omen (Epictetus, Discourses 2.18.29; Lucian of Samosata, The Ship 9).

[28:11]  ³⁰ tn Or “as its emblem.”