Acts 15:12-14

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 15:12 tn BDAG 922 s.v. σιγάω 1.a lists this passage under the meaning “say nothing, keep still, keep silent.”
2. Acts 15:12 tn Here in connection with τέρατα (terata) the miraculous nature of these signs is indicated.
3. Acts 15:13 tn BDAG 922 s.v. σιγάω 1.b lists this passage under the meaning “stop speaking, become silent.”
4. Acts 15:13 tn Grk “answered, saying”; the redundant participle λέγων (legōn) has not been translated.
5. Acts 15:14 sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.
6. Acts 15:14 tn Or “reported,” “described.”
7. Acts 15:14 tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”
8. Acts 15:14 tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.
9. Acts 15:14 sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.