ACTs 15:14 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

GHT Simeon guides-out according-as first the God watches-upon to-take out of {[the] nations} [a] people to {the name} of {same},

ULT Simeon has described how God first looked to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

UST Simon Peter has told you how God previously showed that he cared about the non-Jews. God did that by choosing from among them a group of people who would belong to him.

BSB Simon[fn] has told us how God first visited [the Gentiles] to take from [them] a people [to be] His [own].

15:14 Greek Simeon, a variant of Simon

BLB Simeon has related how God first visited to take out of the Gentiles a people for His name.

AICNT Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.

OEB Simon has described the manner in which God first visited the Gentiles, in order to take from among them a people to bear his name.

WEBBE Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

NET Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

LSV Simeon expounded how at first God looked on [us] to take a people out of [the] nations for His Name,

FBV Simon[fn] has described how God first revealed his concern for the foreigners by taking from them a people committed to him.

15:14 Simon Peter.

TCNT Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name.

T4T Simon Peter has told you how God previously blessed the non-Jews. God did that by choosing from among them a people who would belong to him [MTY].

LEB Simeon has described how God first concerned himself to take from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

BBE Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

Moff Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name.

Wymth Symeon has related how God first looked graciously on the Gentiles to take from among them a People to be called by His name.

ASV Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

DRA Simon hath related how God first visited to take of the Gentiles a people to his name.

YLT Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

Drby Simon has related how [fn]God first visited to take out of [the] nations a people for his name.

15.14 Elohim

RV Symeon hath rehearsed how first God did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
(Symeon hath/has rehearsed how first God did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.)

SLT Simeon related how God first reviewed to take from the nations a people for his name.

Wbstr Simeon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for his name.

KJB-1769 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
(Simeon hath/has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.)

KJB-1611 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visite the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his Name.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps Simeon tolde, howe God at the begynnyng dyd visite, to receaue of the gentiles, a people in his name.
(Simeon told, how God at the beginning did visit, to receive of the gentiles, a people in his name.)

Gnva Simeon hath declared, howe God first did visite the Gentiles, to take of them a people vnto his Name.
(Simeon hath/has declared, how God first did visit the Gentiles, to take of them a people unto his Name.)

Cvdl Simo hath tolde, how God at the first vysited to receaue a people vnto his name from amonge the Heythen.
(Simo hath/has told, how God at the first visited to receive a people unto his name from among the Heathen.)

TNT Simeon tolde how God at the begynnynge dyd visit the gentyls and receaved of them people vnto his name.
(Simeon told how God at the beginning did visit the gentiles and received of them people unto his name.)

Wycl Symount telde, hou God visitide, first to take of hethene men a puple to his name.
(Simon told, how God visited, first to take of heathen men a people to his name.)

Luth Simon hat erzählet, wie aufs erste GOtt heimgesucht hat und angenommen ein Volk aus den Heiden zu seinem Namen.
(Simon has tells, as/like onto first God visited/haunted has and assumed a people out_of the heathens to/for his name(s).)

ClVg Simon narravit quemadmodum primum Deus visitavit sumere ex gentibus populum nomini suo.
(Simon told how/just_like first God visited to_take from nations the_people to_the_name his_own.)

UGNT Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ Θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο, λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.
(Sumeōn exaʸgaʸsato kathōs prōton ho Theos epeskepsato, labein ex ethnōn laon tōi onomati autou.)

SBL-GNT Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν ⸀λαὸν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.
(Sumeōn exaʸgaʸsato kathōs prōton ho theos epeskepsato labein ex ethnōn ⸀laon tōi onomati autou.)

RP-GNT Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.
(Sumeōn exaʸgaʸsato kathōs prōton ho theos epeskepsato labein ex ethnōn laon epi tōi onomati autou.)

TC-GNT Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ Θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν [fn]ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.
(Sumeōn exaʸgaʸsato kathōs prōton ho Theos epeskepsato labein ex ethnōn laon epi tōi onomati autou.)

15:14 επι ¦ — ᴄᴛ

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-names

Συμεὼν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Συμεών ἐξηγήσατο καθώς πρῶτον ὁ Θεός ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαόν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ)

The word Simeon is the name of a man. It is the Hebrew form of the name whose Greek form is Simon. James is referring to Peter by his Hebrew name. If this might be confusing for your readers, you could use either the name Simon or the name Peter here in your translation.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

ὁ Θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο

¬the (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Συμεών ἐξηγήσατο καθώς πρῶτον ὁ Θεός ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαόν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ)

James is speaking of the way God showed concern for the Gentiles by association with the way someone would look carefully at a situation he was concerned about. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [God concerned himself]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

λαὸν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ

This could mean: (1) that God chose the Gentiles for himself. James would be using the term name to refer to a person, God, by association with the way that each person has a name. Alternate translation: [a people who would belong to him]; (2) that God chose the Gentiles to worship him. James would be using the term name to refer to worship by association with the way that worshipers call upon the name of God. Alternate translation: [a people who would worship him]

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Acts 15

Paul’s first three missionary journeys originated from Antioch, one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire by Paul’s time. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator, it first served as the capital of the Seleucid Empire, and by the time of Paul it boasted a significant Jewish population. Decades earlier King Herod the Great of Judea had funded the building of a marble colonnaded street there that was nearly two miles (3.2 km) long. As persecuted followers of Jesus fled Judea, some of them traveled as far as Antioch. There they led many Jews and even Gentiles to become believers, and it was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first called “Christians” (Acts 11:19-26). Antioch was also the starting point for Paul’s first three missionary journeys (Acts 13:1-3; 15:36-41; 18:22-23). After Paul’s first missionary journey, some people came to Antioch from Judea and began to teach that all believers–Jews and Gentiles–must be circumcised and follow the laws of Moses (Acts 15:1). But Paul and Barnabas argued against them. So the church in Antioch sent Paul and Barnabas and other leaders to Jerusalem to discuss this issue with the apostles and elders there. As they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria on their way to Jerusalem, they told others (presumably Jewish believers) about the conversion of many Gentiles to the faith, and all the believers rejoiced with them. After Paul and the other leaders arrived in Jerusalem and were warmly received by the church there, their reports about the conversion of Gentiles led some believers from the sect of the Pharisees to insist that these new believers be circumcised and follow the laws of Moses. After much debate about the matter, the apostles and elders in Jerusalem decided that Gentile believers did not need to follow the laws of Moses except for a few critical requirements: that they abstain from sacrifices made to idols, from blood, from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. Then the Jerusalem church sent Paul and the other leaders back to Antioch with a letter stating this decision. After Paul and the others arrived in Antioch and delivered the letter, the church in Antioch rejoiced. Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch and continued to teach the believers there. Sometime after this Paul and a believer named Silas embarked on a second missionary journey to visit the churches that Paul had helped to found during his first missionary journey, and Barnabas took his relative John Mark to minister in his home region of Cyprus.

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