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14 Symeon[a] has described how God first concerned himself with acquiring from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

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  1. 15:14 Symeon: elsewhere in Acts he is called either Peter or Simon. The presence of the name Symeon here suggests that, in the source Luke is using for this part of the Jerusalem “Council” incident, the name may have originally referred to someone other than Peter (see Acts 13:1 where the Antiochene Symeon Niger is mentioned). As the text now stands, however, it is undoubtedly a reference to Simon Peter (Acts 15:7).

14 Simon[a] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.(A)

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  1. Acts 15:14 Greek Simeon, a variant of Simon; that is, Peter