Discovery BoxActs 7:21 
Context7:21 and when he had been abandoned, 1 Pharaoh’s daughter adopted 2 him and brought him up 3 as her own son.
Acts 7:56
Context7:56 “Look!” he said. 4 “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Acts 9:20
Context9:20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, 5 saying, “This man is the Son of God.” 6
1 tn Or “exposed” (see v. 19).
2 tn Grk “Pharaoh’s daughter took him up for herself.” According to BDAG 64 s.v. ἀναιρέω, “The pap. exx. involve exposed children taken up and reared as slaves…The rendering ‘adopt’ lacks philological precision and can be used only in a loose sense (as NRSV), esp. when Gr-Rom. terminology relating to adoption procedures is taken into account.” In this instance both the immediate context and the OT account (Exod 2:3-10) do support the normal sense of the English word “adopt,” although it should not be understood to refer to a technical, legal event.
3 tn Or “and reared him” (BDAG 74 s.v. ἀνατρέφω b).
4 tn Grk “And he said, ‘Look!’” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here; a new sentence is begun instead.
5 sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.
6 tn The ὅτι (Joti) is understood to introduce direct (“This man is the Son of God”) rather than indirect discourse (“that this man is the Son of God”) because the pronoun οὗτος (Jouto") combined with the present tense verb ἐστιν (estin) suggests the contents of what was proclaimed are a direct (albeit summarized) quotation.
sn This is the only use of the title Son of God in Acts. The book prefers to allow a variety of descriptions to present Jesus.
