Acts 2:21

2:21 And then 1  everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 2 

Acts 16:30-31

16:30 Then he brought them outside 3  and asked, “Sirs, what must 4  I do to be saved?” 16:31 They replied, 5  “Believe 6  in the Lord Jesus 7  and you will be saved, you and your household.”

1 tn Grk “And it will be that.”

2 sn A quotation from Joel 2:28-32.

3 tn Grk “And bringing them outside, he asked.” The participle προαγαγών (proagagwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun by supplying the conjunction “then” to indicate the logical sequence.

4 tn The Greek term (δεῖ, dei) is used by Luke to represent divine necessity.

5 tn Grk “said.”

6 sn Here the summary term of response is a call to believe. In this context it refers to trusting the sovereign God’s power to deliver, which events had just pictured for the jailer.

7 tc The majority of mss add Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) here (C D E Ψ 1739 Ï sy sa), but the best and earliest witnesses read simply τὸν κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton kurion Ihsoun, “the Lord Jesus”; Ì74vid א A B 33 81 pc bo). The addition of “Christ” to “Lord Jesus” is an obviously motivated reading. Thus on both external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred.