¹ tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”

² tn Grk “word.”

³ tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).

⁴ tn Or “were won over.”

⁵ tn Or “Lord, take notice of.”

⁶ sn Grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage. The request is not for a stop to persecution or revenge on the opponents, but for boldness (great courage) to carry out the mission of proclaiming the message of what God is doing through Jesus.

⁷ tn Grk “slaves.” See the note on the word “servants” in 2:18.

⁸ tn Grk “word.”

⁹ tn Or “with all boldness.”

¹⁰ tn Or “came down on.” God now acted to confirm the point of Peter’s speech.

¹¹ tn Or “word.”

¹² tn Grk “words” (ῥήματα, rJhmata), but in this context the overall message is meant rather than the individual words.

¹³ sn Miletus was a seaport on the western coast of Asia Minor about 45 mi (72 km) south of Ephesus.

¹⁴ tn The words “a message” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

¹⁵ tn The words “to him” are not in the Greek text but are implied. L&N 33.311 has for the verb μετακαλέομαι (metakaleomai) “to summon someone, with considerable insistence and authority – ‘to summon, to tell to come.’”