Acts 2:36

2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt ¹  that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified ²  both Lord ³  and Christ.” ⁴ 

Acts 4:27

4:27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against ⁵  your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ⁶ 

Acts 5:32

5:32 And we are witnesses of these events, ⁷  and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey ⁸  him.”

Acts 25:19

25:19 Rather they had several points of disagreement ⁹  with him about their own religion ¹⁰  and about a man named Jesus ¹¹  who was dead, whom Paul claimed ¹²  to be alive.

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¹ tn Or “know for certain.” This term is in an emphatic position in the clause.

² tn Grk “has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” The clause has been simplified in the translation by replacing the pronoun “him” with the explanatory clause “this Jesus whom you crucified” which comes at the end of the sentence.

³ sn Lord. This looks back to the quotation of Ps 110:1 and the mention of “calling on the Lord” in 2:21. Peter’s point is that the Lord on whom one calls for salvation is Jesus, because he is the one mediating God’s blessing of the Spirit as a sign of the presence of salvation and the last days.

⁴ tn Or “and Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.

⁵ 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.

⁶ sn A wordplay on “Christ,” v. 26, which means “one who has been anointed.”

⁷ tn Or “things.” They are preaching these things even to the hostile leadership.

⁸ sn Those who obey. The implication, of course, is that the leadership is disobeying God.

⁹ tn Grk “several controversial issues.” BDAG 428 s.v. ζήτημα states, “in our lit. only in Ac, w. the mng. it still has in Mod. Gk. (controversial) question, issue, argument…Ac 15:2; 26:3. ζ. περί τινος questions about someth.…18:15; 25:19.”

¹⁰ tn On this term see BDAG 216 s.v. δεισιδαιμονία 2. It is a broad term for religion.

sn About their own religion. Festus made it clear that in his view as a neutral figure (and as one Luke had noted was disposed to help the Jews), he saw no guilt in Paul. The issue was a simple religious dispute.

¹¹ tn Grk “a certain Jesus.”

¹² tn Or “asserted.”