Discovery BoxActs 8:22 
Context8:22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord 1 that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart. 2
Acts 15:8
Context15:8 And God, who knows the heart, 3 has testified 4 to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 5
1 tn Or “and implore the Lord.”
2 tn Grk “that if possible the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.” The passive construction is somewhat awkward in contemporary English and has thus been converted to an active construction in the translation.
3 sn The expression who knows the heart means “who knows what people think.”
4 tn Or “has borne witness.”
5 sn By giving them…just as he did to us. The allusion is to the events of Acts 10-11, esp. 10:44-48 and Peter’s remarks in 11:15-18.
