Acts 7:3

7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ 1 

Acts 7:14

7:14 So Joseph sent a message 2  and invited 3  his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people 4  in all.

Acts 10:24

10:24 The following day 5  he entered Caesarea. 6  Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously 7  for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

1 sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.

2 tn The words “a message” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

3 tn Or “Joseph had his father summoned” (BDAG 121 s.v. ἀποστέλλω 2.b).

4 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).

5 tn Grk “On the next day,” but since this phrase has already occurred in v. 23, it would be redundant in English to use it again here.

6 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi).

map For location see Map2-C1; Map4-B3; Map5-F2; Map7-A1; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

7 tn Normally προσδοκάω (prosdokaw) means “to wait with apprehension or anxiety for something,” often with the implication of impending danger or trouble (L&N 25.228), but in this context the anxiety Cornelius would have felt came from the importance of the forthcoming message as announced by the angel.