Acts 2:42-47
New English Translation
The Fellowship of the Early Believers
42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship,[a] to the breaking of bread and to prayer.[b] 43 Reverential awe[c] came over everyone,[d] and many wonders and miraculous signs[e] came about by the apostles. 44 All who believed were together and held[f] everything in common, 45 and they began selling[g] their property[h] and possessions and distributing the proceeds[i] to everyone, as anyone had need. 46 Every day[j] they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts,[k] breaking bread from[l] house to house, sharing their food with glad[m] and humble hearts,[n] 47 praising God and having the good will[o] of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day[p] those who were being saved.
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- Acts 2:42 sn Fellowship refers here to close association involving mutual involvement and relationships.
- Acts 2:42 tn Grk “prayers.” This word was translated as a collective singular in keeping with English style.
- Acts 2:43 tn Or “Fear.”
- Acts 2:43 tn Grk “on every soul” (here “soul” is an idiom for the whole person).
- Acts 2:43 tn In this context the miraculous nature of these signs is implied. Cf. BDAG 920 s.v. σημεῖον 2.a.
- Acts 2:44 tn Grk “had.”
- Acts 2:45 tn The imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive (“began…”). Since in context this is a description of the beginning of the community of believers, it is more likely that these statements refer to the start of various activities and practices that the early church continued for some time.
- Acts 2:45 tn It is possible that the first term for property (κτήματα, ktēmata) refers to real estate (as later usage seems to indicate) while the second term (ὑπάρξεις, huparxeis) refers to possessions in general, but it may also be that the two terms are used together for emphasis, simply indicating that all kinds of possessions were being sold. However, if the first term is more specifically a reference to real estate, it foreshadows the incident with Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.
- Acts 2:45 tn Grk “distributing them” (αὐτά, auta). The referent (the proceeds of the sales) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Acts 2:46 tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.
- Acts 2:46 tn Grk “in the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.
- Acts 2:46 tn Here κατά (kata) is used as a distributive (BDAG 512 s.v. B.1.d).
- Acts 2:46 sn The term glad (Grk “gladness”) often refers to joy brought about by God’s saving acts (Luke 1:14, 44; also the related verb in 1:47; 10:21).
- Acts 2:46 tn Grk “with gladness and humbleness of hearts.” It is best to understand καρδίας (kardias) as an attributed genitive, with the two nouns it modifies actually listing attributes of the genitive noun which is related to them.
- Acts 2:47 tn Or “the favor.”
- Acts 2:47 tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.
Acts 2:42-47
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament
42 And de they were eimi devoting proskartereō themselves to the ho teaching didachē of the ho apostles apostolos, · kai to the ho fellowship koinōnia, to the ho breaking klasis of ho bread artos, and kai to ho prayers proseuchē. 43 Fear phobos came ginomai upon · de every pas soul psychē, and te many polys wonders teras and kai signs sēmeion were being done ginomai through dia the ho apostles apostolos. 44 And de all pas who ho believed pisteuō were eimi together epi ho, · ho and kai had echō all hapas things in common koinos; 45 and kai they were selling pipraskō their ho possessions ktēma and kai · ho belongings hyparxis and kai distributing diamerizō the proceeds autos to all pas, as kathoti anyone an tis had echō need chreia. 46 And te every kata day hēmera, they continued to gather proskartereō together homothumadon in en the ho temple hieron, breaking klaō bread artos from house to kata house oikos, sharing metalambanō their food trophē with en joy agalliasis and kai simplicity aphelotēs of heart kardia, 47 praising aineō · ho God theos, and kai finding echō favor charis with pros all holos the ho people laos. And de the ho Lord kyrios was adding prostithēmi to epi their ho number autos day by kata day hēmera those ho who were being saved sōzō.
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