Footnotes

1. Acts 2:25 tn Or “always before me.”
2. Acts 2:26 tn Grk “my flesh.”
3. Acts 2:27 tn Or “will not abandon my soul to Hades.” Often “Hades” is the equivalent of the Hebrew term Sheol, the place of the dead.
4. Acts 2:27 tn Grk “to see,” but the literal translation of the phrase “to see decay” could be misunderstood to mean simply “to look at decay,” while here “see decay” is really figurative for “experience decay.”
5. Acts 2:28 sn A quotation from Ps 16:8-11.
6. Acts 2:29 tn Since this represents a continuation of the address beginning in v.14 and continued in v. 22, “brothers” has been used here rather than a generic expression like “brothers and sisters.”
7. Acts 2:29 sn Peter’s certainty is based on well-known facts.
8. Acts 2:29 tn Or “about our noted ancestor,” “about the patriarch.”