Acts 4:24-27

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 4:24 sn With one mind. Cf. Acts 1:14.
2. Acts 4:24 tn Or “Lord of all.”sn The use of the title Master of all (δεσπότης, despotēs) emphasizes that there is a sovereign God who is directing what is taking place.
3. Acts 4:24 tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
4. Acts 4:25 tn Grk “by the mouth of” (an idiom).
5. Acts 4:25 tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”
6. Acts 4:25 tn Or “Gentiles.”
7. Acts 4:25 sn The Greek word translated rage includes not only anger but opposition, both verbal and nonverbal. See L&N 88.185.
8. Acts 4:25 tn Or “futile”; traditionally, “vain.”
9. Acts 4:26 tn Traditionally, “The kings of the earth took their stand.”
10. Acts 4:26 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.
11. Acts 4:26 sn A quotation from Ps 2:1-2.
12. Acts 4:27 sn The application of Ps 2:1-2 is that Jews and Gentiles are opposing Jesus. The surprise of the application is that Jews are now found among the enemies of God’s plan.
13. Acts 4:27 sn A wordplay on “Christ,” v. 26, which means “one who has been anointed.”