Discovery BoxActs 2:37 
ContextThe Response to Peter’s Address
2:37 Now when they heard this, 1 they were acutely distressed 2 and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”
Acts 2:41
Context2:41 So those who accepted 3 his message 4 were baptized, and that day about three thousand people 5 were added. 6
1 tn The word “this” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.
2 tn Grk “they were pierced to the heart” (an idiom for acute emotional distress).
3 tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”
4 tn Grk “word.”
5 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).
6 tn Or “were won over.”
