Acts 22:16
ContextNETBible | And now what are you waiting for? 1 Get up, 2 be baptized, and have your sins washed away, 3 calling on his name.’ 4 |
XREF | Ps 119:60; Jer 8:14; Ac 2:21; Ac 2:38; Ac 9:14; Ro 6:3,4; Ro 10:12-14; 1Co 1:2; 1Co 6:11; 1Co 12:13; Ga 3:27; Tit 3:5; Heb 10:22; 1Pe 3:21 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn L&N 67.121 has “to extend time unduly, with the implication of lack of decision – ‘to wait, to delay.’ νῦν τί μέλλεις… ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι ‘what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized’ Ac 22:16.” 2 tn Grk “getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb. 3 sn The expression have your sins washed away means “have your sins purified” (the washing is figurative). 4 sn The expression calling on his name describes the confession of the believer: Acts 2:17-38, esp. v. 38; Rom 10:12-13; 1 Cor 1:2. |