2:29 “Brothers, 1 I can speak confidently 2 to you about our forefather 3 David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
2:37 Now when they heard this, 4 they were acutely distressed 5 and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”
1 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.”
2 sn Peter’s certainty is based on well-known facts.
3 tn Or “about our noted ancestor,” “about the patriarch.”
4 tn The word “this” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.
5 tn Grk “they were pierced to the heart” (an idiom for acute emotional distress).