Discovery BoxActs 15:12 
Context15:12 The whole group kept quiet 1 and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs 2 and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
Acts 15:14
Context15:14 Simeon 3 has explained 4 how God first concerned himself 5 to select 6 from among the Gentiles 7 a people for his name.
1 tn BDAG 922 s.v. σιγάω 1.a lists this passage under the meaning “say nothing, keep still, keep silent.”
2 tn Here in connection with τέρατα (terata) the miraculous nature of these signs is indicated.
3 sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.
4 tn Or “reported,” “described.”
5 tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”
6 tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.
7 sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.
