Discovery BoxActs 2:39 
Context2:39 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
Context3:18 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
Context17:21 (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
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.
