Kisah Para Rasul 1:5

1:5 For ¹  John baptized with water, but you ²  will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Kisah Para Rasul 4:20

4:20 for it is impossible ³  for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Kisah Para Rasul 8:21

8:21 You have no share or part ⁴  in this matter ⁵  because your heart is not right before God!

Kisah Para Rasul 13:12

13:12 Then when the proconsul ⁶  saw what had happened, he believed, ⁷  because he was greatly astounded ⁸  at the teaching about ⁹  the Lord.

Kisah Para Rasul 15:9

15:9 and he made no distinction ¹⁰  between them and us, cleansing ¹¹  their hearts by faith.

Kisah Para Rasul 17:12

17:12 Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few ¹²  prominent ¹³  Greek women and men.

Kisah Para Rasul 22:7

22:7 Then I ¹⁴  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Kisah Para Rasul 27:23

27:23 For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong ¹⁵  and whom I serve ¹⁶  came to me ¹⁷ 

[1:5]  ¹ tn In the Greek text v. 5 is a continuation of the previous sentence, which is long and complicated. In keeping with the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:5]  ² tn The pronoun is plural in Greek.

[4:20]  ³ tn Grk “for we are not able not to speak about what we have seen and heard,” but the double negative, which cancels out in English, is emphatic in Greek. The force is captured somewhat by the English translation “it is impossible for us not to speak…” although this is slightly awkward.

[8:21]  ⁴ tn The translation “share or part” is given by L&N 63.13.

[8:21]  ⁵ tn Since the semantic range for λόγος (logos) is so broad, a number of different translations could be given for the prepositional phrase here. Something along the lines of “in this thing” would work well, but is too colloquial for the present translation.

[13:12]  ⁶ sn See the note on proconsul in v. 8.

[13:12]  ⁷ sn He believed. The faith of the proconsul in the face of Jewish opposition is a theme of the rest of Acts. Paul has indeed become “a light to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:47).

[13:12]  ⁸ tn The translation “greatly astounded” for ἐκπλησσόμενος (ekplhssomeno") is given by L&N 25.219.

[13:12]  ⁹ tn Grk “of,” but this could give the impression the Lord himself had done the teaching (a subjective genitive) when actually the Lord was the object of the teaching (an objective genitive).

[15:9]  ¹⁰ tn BDAG 231 s.v. διακρίνω 1.b lists this passage under the meaning “to conclude that there is a difference, make a distinction, differentiate.”

[15:9]  ¹¹ tn Or “purifying.”

[17:12]  ¹² tn Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quite a few” (which is the actual meaning of the expression).

[17:12]  ¹³ tn Or “respected.”

[22:7]  ¹⁴ tn This is a continuation of the same sentence in Greek using the connective τέ (te), but due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence a new sentence was begun in the translation here. To indicate the logical sequence for the modern English reader, τέ was translated as “then.”

[27:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “of whom I am.” The relative clause with its possessive was translated following L&N 15.86 s.v. παρίσταμαι.

[27:23]  ¹⁶ tn Or “worship.”

[27:23]  ¹⁷ tn Or “stood by me.” BDAG 778 s.v. παρίστημι/παριστάνω 2.a.α states, “approach, come τινί (to) someone…Ac 9:39; 27:23.”