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Acts 11:16-18
Lexham English Bible
Acts 11:16-18
Lexham English Bible
16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’[a] 17 Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us when we[b] believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?” 18 And when they[c] heard these things, they became silent[d] and praised God, saying, “Then God has granted the repentance leading to life to the Gentiles also!”
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- Acts 11:16 An allusion to Acts 1:5
- Acts 11:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“believed”) which is understood as temporal
- Acts 11:18 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
- Acts 11:18 Here the aorist verb is translated as ingressive (“became silent”)
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