Acts 5:29-31

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 5:29 tn Grk “apostles answered and said.”
2. Acts 5:29 sn Obey. See 4:19. This response has Jewish roots (Dan 3:16-18; 2 Macc 7:2; Josephus, Ant. 17.6.3 [17.159]).
3. Acts 5:29 tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anthrōpois) has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).
4. Acts 5:30 tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”
5. Acts 5:30 tn Or “by crucifying him” (“hang on a tree” is by the time of the first century an idiom for crucifixion). The allusion is to the judgment against Jesus as a rebellious figure, appealing to the language of Deut 21:23. The Jewish leadership has badly “misjudged” Jesus.
6. Acts 5:31 tn Grk “This one God exalted” (emphatic).
7. Acts 5:31 tn Or “Founder” (of a movement).
8. Acts 5:31 tn Or “to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.”