Acts 2:39

2:39 For the promise ¹  is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Acts 3:18

3:18 But the things God foretold ²  long ago through ³  all the prophets – that his Christ ⁴  would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

Acts 17:21

17:21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time ⁵  in nothing else than telling ⁶  or listening to something new.) ⁷ 

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¹ sn The promise refers to the promise of the Holy Spirit that Jesus received from the Father in 2:33 and which he now pours out on others. The promise consists of the Holy Spirit (see note in 2:33). Jesus is the active mediator of God’s blessing.

² sn God foretold. Peter’s topic is the working out of God’s plan and promise through events the scriptures also note.

³ tn Grk “by the mouth of” (an idiom).

⁴ tn Or “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 tn The imperfect verb ηὐκαίρουν (hukairoun) has been translated as a customary or habitual imperfect.

⁶ tn BDAG 406-7 s.v. εὐκαιρέω has “used to spend their time in nothing else than telling Ac 17:21.”

⁷ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. The reference to newness may be pejorative.