Kisah Para Rasul 8:14-19

8:14 Now when the apostles in Jerusalem ¹  heard that Samaria had accepted the word ²  of God, they sent ³  Peter and John to them. 8:15 These two ⁴  went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit. 8:16 (For the Spirit ⁵  had not yet come upon ⁶  any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ⁷  8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, ⁸  and they received the Holy Spirit. ⁹ 

8:18 Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit ¹⁰  was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money, 8:19 saying, “Give me this power ¹¹  too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

Kisah Para Rasul 19:1-7

Disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus

19:1 While ¹²  Apollos was in Corinth, ¹³  Paul went through the inland ¹⁴  regions ¹⁵  and came to Ephesus. ¹⁶  He ¹⁷  found some disciples there ¹⁸  19:2 and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ¹⁹  They replied, ²⁰  “No, we have not even ²¹  heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 19:3 So Paul ²²  said, “Into what then were you baptized?” “Into John’s baptism,” they replied. ²³  19:4 Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, ²⁴  that is, in Jesus.” 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, 19:6 and when Paul placed ²⁵  his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came ²⁶  upon them, and they began to speak ²⁷  in tongues and to prophesy. ²⁸  19:7 (Now there were about twelve men in all.) ²⁹ 

[8:14]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:14]  ² tn Or “message.”

[8:14]  ³ sn They sent. The Jerusalem church with the apostles was overseeing the expansion of the church, as the distribution of the Spirit indicates in vv. 15-17.

[8:15]  ⁴ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the phrase “these two” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style.

[8:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “For he”; the referent (the Spirit) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:16]  ⁶ tn Or “fallen on.”

[8:16]  ⁷ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[8:17]  ⁸ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:17]  ⁹ sn They received the Holy Spirit. It is likely this special distribution of the Spirit took place because a key ethnic boundary was being crossed. Here are some of “those far off” of Acts 2:38-40.

[8:18]  ¹⁰ tc Most witnesses (Ì^45,74 A* C D E Ψ 33 1739 Ï latt sy bo) here read “the Holy Spirit” (τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, to pneuma to {agion), while a few key mss have simply τὸ πνεῦμα (א A^c B sa mae). Although it is possible that some scribes omitted τὸ ἅγιον because of its perceived superfluity (note vv. 15, 17, 19), it is far more likely that others added the adjective out of pious motives.

[8:19]  ¹¹ tn Or “ability”; Grk “authority.”

[19:1]  ¹² tn Grk “It happened that while.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[19:1]  ¹³ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[19:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “interior.”

[19:1]  ¹⁵ tn BDAG 92 s.v. ἀνωτερικός has “upper τὰ ἀ. μέρη the upper (i.e. inland) country, the interior Ac 19:1.”

[19:1]  ¹⁶ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[19:1]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “and found.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the sequencing with the following verse the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[19:1]  ¹⁸ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

[19:2]  ¹⁹ tn The participle πιστεύσαντες (pisteusante") is taken temporally.

[19:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “they [said] to him” (the word “said” is implied in the Greek text).

[19:2]  ²¹ tn This use of ἀλλά (alla) is ascensive and involves an ellipsis (BDAG 45 s.v. ἀλλά 3): “No, [not only did we not receive the Spirit,] but also we have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” However, this is lengthy and somewhat awkward in English, and the ascensive meaning can be much more easily represented by including the word “even” after the negation. Apparently these disciples were unaware of the provision of the Spirit that is represented in baptism. The language sounds like they did not know about a Holy Spirit, but this seems to be only linguistic shorthand for not knowing about the Spirit’s presence (Luke 3:15-18). The situation is parallel to that of Apollos. Apollos and these disciples represent those who “complete” their transition to messianic faith as Jews.

[19:3]  ²² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:3]  ²³ tn Grk “they said.”

[19:4]  ²⁴ sn These disciples may have had their contact with John early on in the Baptist’s ministry before Jesus had emerged. This is the fifth time Luke links John the Baptist and Jesus (Acts 1:5; 11:16; 13:25; 18:25).

[19:6]  ²⁵ tn Or “laid.”

[19:6]  ²⁶ sn The coming of the Holy Spirit here is another case where the Spirit comes and prophesy results in Acts (see Acts 2). Paul’s action parallels that of Peter (Acts 8) and not just with Gentiles.

[19:6]  ²⁷ tn The imperfect verb ἐλάλουν (elaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[19:6]  ²⁸ tn The imperfect verb ἐπροφήτευον (eprofhteuon) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[19:7]  ²⁹ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.