Kisah Para Rasul 2:17
Konteks2:17 ‘And in the last days 1 it will be,’ God says,
‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, 2
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
Kisah Para Rasul 13:22
Konteks13:22 After removing him, God 3 raised up 4 David their king. He testified about him: 5 ‘I have found David 6 the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, 7 who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ 8
Kisah Para Rasul 17:18
Konteks17:18 Also some of the Epicurean 9 and Stoic 10 philosophers were conversing 11 with him, and some were asking, 12 “What does this foolish babbler 13 want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” 14 (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) 15
Kisah Para Rasul 17:23
Konteks17:23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, 16 I even found an altar with this inscription: 17 ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, 18 this I proclaim to you.
Kisah Para Rasul 18:2
Konteks18:2 There he 19 found 20 a Jew named Aquila, 21 a native of Pontus, 22 who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius 23 had ordered all the Jews to depart from 24 Rome. 25 Paul approached 26 them,
Kisah Para Rasul 21:25
Konteks21:25 But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided 27 that they should avoid 28 meat that has been sacrificed to idols 29 and blood and what has been strangled 30 and sexual immorality.”
[2:17] 1 sn The phrase in the last days is not quoted from Joel, but represents Peter’s interpretive explanation of the current events as falling “in the last days.”
[2:17] 2 tn Grk “on all flesh.”
[13:22] 3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:22] 4 sn The expression raised up refers here to making someone king. There is a wordplay here: “raising up” refers to bringing someone onto the scene of history, but it echoes with the parallel to Jesus’ resurrection.
[13:22] 5 tn Grk “about whom.” The relative pronoun (“whom”) was replaced by the pronoun “him” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek. The verb εἶπεν (eipen) has not been translated (literally “he said testifying”) because it is redundant when combined with the participle μαρτυρήσας (marturhsa", “testifying”). Instead the construction of verb plus participle has been translated as a single English verb (“testified”).
[13:22] 6 sn A quotation from Ps 89:20.
[13:22] 7 sn A quotation from 1 Sam 13:14.
[13:22] 8 tn Or “who will perform all my will,” “who will carry out all my wishes.”
[17:18] 9 sn An Epicurean was a follower of the philosophy of Epicurus, who founded a school in Athens about 300
[17:18] 10 sn A Stoic was a follower of the philosophy founded by Zeno (342-270
[17:18] 11 tn BDAG 956 s.v. συμβάλλω 1 has “converse, confer” here.
[17:18] 13 tn Or “ignorant show-off.” The traditional English translation of σπερμολόγος (spermologo") is given in L&N 33.381 as “foolish babbler.” However, an alternate view is presented in L&N 27.19, “(a figurative extension of meaning of a term based on the practice of birds in picking up seeds) one who acquires bits and pieces of relatively extraneous information and proceeds to pass them off with pretense and show – ‘ignorant show-off, charlatan.’” A similar view is given in BDAG 937 s.v. σπερμολόγος: “in pejorative imagery of persons whose communication lacks sophistication and seems to pick up scraps of information here and there scrapmonger, scavenger…Engl. synonyms include ‘gossip’, ‘babbler’, chatterer’; but these terms miss the imagery of unsystematic gathering.”
[17:18] 14 tn The meaning of this phrase is not clear. Literally it reads “strange deities” (see BDAG 210 s.v. δαιμόνιον 1). The note of not being customary is important. In the ancient world what was new was suspicious. The plural δαιμονίων (daimoniwn, “deities”) shows the audience grappling with Paul’s teaching that God was working through Jesus.
[17:18] 15 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
[17:23] 16 tn Or “your sanctuaries.” L&N 53.54 gives “sanctuary” (place of worship) as an alternate meaning for the word σεβάσματα (sebasmata).
[17:23] 17 tn Grk “on which was written,” but since it would have been carved in stone, it is more common to speak of an “inscription” in English. To simplify the English the relative construction with a passive verb (“on which was inscribed”) was translated as a prepositional phrase with a substantive (“inscription”).
[17:23] 18 tn BDAG 13 s.v. ἀγνοέω 1.b has “Abs. ὅ ἀγνοοῦντες εὐσεβεῖτε what you worship without knowing it (on the subject matter Maximus Tyr. 11, 5e: all sorts of philosophers ἴσασιν οὐκ ἑκόντες καὶ λέγουσιν ἄκοντες sc. τὸ θεῖον = they know and name God without intending to do so) Ac 17:23.” Paul, in typical Jewish Christian style, informs them of the true God, of whom their idols are an ignorant reflection.
[18:2] 19 tn Grk “And he.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here. The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.
[18:2] 20 tn Grk “finding.” The participle εὑρών (Jeurwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
[18:2] 21 sn On Aquila and his wife Priscilla see also Acts 18:18, 26; Rom 16:3-4; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19. In the NT “Priscilla” and “Prisca” are the same person. This author uses the full name Priscilla, while Paul uses the diminutive form Prisca.
[18:2] 22 sn Pontus was a region in the northeastern part of Asia Minor. It was a Roman province.
[18:2] 23 sn Claudius refers to the Roman emperor Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, known as Claudius, who ruled from
[18:2] 25 map For location see JP4 A1.
[21:25] 27 tn L&N 13.154 has “‘having decided that they must keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from an animal that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality’ Ac 21:25.”
[21:25] sn Having decided refers here to the decision of the Jerusalem council (Acts 15:6-21). Mention of this previous decision reminds the reader that the issue here is somewhat different: It is not whether Gentiles must first become Jews before they can become Christians (as in Acts 15), but whether Jews who become Christians should retain their Jewish practices. Sensitivity to this issue would suggest that Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians might engage in different practices.
[21:25] 28 tn This is a different Greek word than the one used in Acts 15:20, 29. BDAG 1068 s.v. φυλάσσω 3 has “to be on one’s guard against, look out for, avoid…w. acc. of pers. or thing avoided…Ac 21:25.” The Greek word used in Acts 15:20, 29 is ἀπέχω (apecw). The difference in meaning, although slight, has been maintained in the translation.
[21:25] 29 tn There is no specific semantic component in the Greek word εἰδωλόθυτος that means “meat” (see BDAG 280 s.v. εἰδωλόθυτος; L&N 5.15). The stem –θυτος means “sacrifice” (referring to an animal sacrificially killed) and thereby implies meat.
[21:25] 30 sn What has been strangled. That is, to refrain from eating animals that had been killed without having the blood drained from them. According to the Mosaic law (Lev 17:13-14) Jews were forbidden to eat flesh with the blood still in it (note the preceding provision in this verse, and blood).