24 And when they[a] heard it,[b] they lifted their voices with one mind to God and said, “Master, you are the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, 25 the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant,

‘Why do the nations[c] rage,
    and the peoples conspire in vain?
26 The kings of the earth stood opposed,
    and the rulers assembled together at the same place,
against the Lord and against his Christ.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 4:24 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Acts 4:25 Or “Gentiles”; the same Greek word can be translated “nations” or “Gentiles” depending on the context
  4. Acts 4:26 Or “Messiah”; this is a quotation from Ps 2:1–2