Acts 10:37-41

10:37 you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced: ¹  10:38 with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, ²  that ³  God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He ⁴  went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, ⁵  because God was with him. ⁶  10:39 We ⁷  are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea ⁸  and in Jerusalem. ⁹  They ¹⁰  killed him by hanging him on a tree, ¹¹  10:40 but ¹²  God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen, ¹³  10:41 not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, ¹⁴  who ate and drank ¹⁵  with him after he rose from the dead.

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¹ tn Or “proclaimed.”

² sn The somewhat awkward naming of Jesus as from Nazareth here is actually emphatic. He is the key subject of these key events.

³ tn Or “how.” The use of ὡς (Jws) as an equivalent to ὅτι (Joti) to introduce indirect or even direct discourse is well documented. BDAG 1105 s.v. ὡς 5 lists Acts 10:28 in this category.

⁴ tn Grk “power, who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “he,” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

⁵ tn The translation “healing all who were oppressed by the devil” is given in L&N 22.22.

sn All who were oppressed by the devil. Note how healing is tied to the cosmic battle present in creation. Christ’s power overcomes the devil and his forces, which seek to destroy humanity.

⁶ sn See Acts 7:9.

⁷ tn Grk “And we.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

⁸ tn Grk “the land of the Jews,” but this is similar to the phrase used as the name of the province of Judea in 1 Macc 8:3 (see BDAG 1093-94 s.v. χώρα 2.b).

⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰ tn Grk “in Jerusalem, whom they killed.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “him” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

¹¹ tn Or “by crucifying him” (“hang on a tree” is by the time of the 1st century an idiom for crucifixion). The allusion is to the judgment against Jesus as a rebellious figure, appealing to the language of Deut 21:23. The Jewish leadership has badly “misjudged” Jesus.

¹² tn The conjunction “but” is not in the Greek text, but the contrast is clearly implied in the context. This is technically asyndeton, or lack of a connective, in Greek.

¹³ tn Grk “and granted that he should become visible.” The literal Greek idiom is somewhat awkward in English. L&N 24.22 offers the translation “caused him to be seen” for this verse.

¹⁴ tn Or “the witnesses God had previously chosen.” See Acts 1:8.

¹⁵ sn Ate and drank. See Luke 24:35-49.