Kisah Para Rasul 5:32

5:32 And we are witnesses of these events, ¹  and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey ²  him.”

Kisah Para Rasul 6:13

6:13 They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place ³  and the law. ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:11

7:11 Then a famine occurred throughout ⁵  Egypt and Canaan, causing ⁶  great suffering, and our ⁷  ancestors ⁸  could not find food.

Kisah Para Rasul 7:30

7:30 “After ⁹  forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert ¹⁰  of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. ¹¹ 

Kisah Para Rasul 9:8

9:8 So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, ¹²  he could see nothing. ¹³  Leading him by the hand, his companions ¹⁴  brought him into Damascus.

[5:32]  ¹ tn Or “things.” They are preaching these things even to the hostile leadership.

[5:32]  ² sn Those who obey. The implication, of course, is that the leadership is disobeying God.

[6:13]  ³ sn This holy place is a reference to the temple.

[6:13]  ⁴ sn The law refers to the law of Moses. It elaborates the nature of the blasphemy in v. 11. To speak against God’s law in Torah was to blaspheme God (Deut 28:15-19). On the Jewish view of false witnesses, see Exod 19:16-18; 20:16; m. Sanhedrin 3.6; 5.1-5. Stephen’s speech in Acts 7 may indicate why the temple was mentioned.

[7:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “came upon all Egypt.”

[7:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “and,” but logically causal.

[7:11]  ⁷ sn Our. Stephen spoke of “our” ancestors (Grk “fathers”) in an inclusive sense throughout the speech until his rebuke in v. 51, where the nation does what “your” ancestors did, at which point an exclusive pronoun is used. This serves to emphasize the rebuke.

[7:11]  ⁸ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:30]  ⁹ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and contemporary English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[7:30]  ¹⁰ tn Or “wilderness.”

[7:30]  ¹¹ sn An allusion to Exod 3:2.

[9:8]  ¹² tn Grk “his eyes being open,” a genitive absolute construction that has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle.

[9:8]  ¹³ sn He could see nothing. This sign of blindness, which was temporary until v. 18, is like the sign of deafness experienced by Zechariah in Luke 1. It allowed some time for Saul (Paul) to reflect on what had happened without distractions.

[9:8]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “they”; the referents (Saul’s companions) have been specified in the translation for clarity.