Acts 4:18

4:18 And they called them in and ordered ¹  them not to speak or teach at all in the name ²  of Jesus.

Acts 9:14

9:14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison ³  all who call on your name!” ⁴ 

Acts 10:43

10:43 About him all the prophets testify, ⁵  that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins ⁶  through his name.”

Acts 15:14

15:14 Simeon ⁷  has explained ⁸  how God first concerned himself ⁹  to select ¹⁰  from among the Gentiles ¹¹  a people for his name.

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¹ tn Or “commanded.”

² sn In the name of Jesus. Once again, the “name” reflects the person. The person of Jesus and his authority is the “troubling” topic that, as far as the Jewish leadership is concerned, needs controlling.

³ tn Grk “to bind.”

⁴ sn The expression “those who call on your name” is a frequent description of believers (Acts 2:21; 1 Cor 1:2; Rom 10:13).

⁵ tn Or “All the prophets testify about him.” Although modern English translations tend to place “about him” after “testify” (so NIV, NRSV) the phrase “about him” has been left at the beginning of v. 43 for emphatic reasons.

⁶ sn Forgiveness of sins. See Luke 24:47; also Acts 14:23; 19:4; 9:42; 11:17; 16:31. The gospel is present in the prophetic promise, Rom 1:1-7. The message is in continuity with the ancient hope.

⁷ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

⁸ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

⁹ tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.

¹¹ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.