Kisah Para Rasul 3:15

3:15 You killed ¹  the Originator ²  of life, whom God raised ³  from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses! ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 3:18

3:18 But the things God foretold ⁵  long ago through ⁶  all the prophets – that his Christ ⁷  would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

Kisah Para Rasul 3:21

3:21 This one ⁸  heaven must ⁹  receive until the time all things are restored, ¹⁰  which God declared ¹¹  from times long ago ¹²  through his holy prophets.

[3:15]  ¹ tn Or “You put to death.”

[3:15]  ² tn Or “Founder,” “founding Leader.”

[3:15]  ³ sn Whom God raised. God is the main actor here, as he testifies to Jesus and vindicates him.

[3:15]  ⁴ tn Grk “whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.” The two consecutive relative clauses make for awkward English style, so the second was begun as a new sentence with the words “to this fact” supplied in place of the Greek relative pronoun to make a complete sentence in English.

[3:15]  sn We are witnesses. Note the two witnesses here, Peter and John (Acts 5:32; Heb 2:3-4).

[3:18]  ⁵ sn God foretold. Peter’s topic is the working out of God’s plan and promise through events the scriptures also note.

[3:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “by the mouth of” (an idiom).

[3:18]  ⁷ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[3:18]  sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.

[3:21]  ⁸ tn Grk “whom,” continuing the sentence from v. 20.

[3:21]  ⁹ sn The term must used here (δεῖ, dei, “it is necessary”) is a key Lukan term to point to the plan of God and what must occur.

[3:21]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “until the times of the restoration of all things.” Because of the awkward English style of the extended genitive construction, and because the following relative clause has as its referent the “time of restoration” rather than “all things,” the phrase was translated “until the time all things are restored.”

[3:21]  sn The time all things are restored. What that restoration involves is already recorded in the scriptures of the nation of Israel.

[3:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “spoke.”

[3:21]  ¹² tn Or “from all ages past.”

[3:21]  sn From times long ago. Once again, God’s plan is emphasized.