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Acts 11:3-5
New English Translation
Acts 11:3-5
New English Translation
3 saying, “You went to[a] uncircumcised men and shared a meal with[b] them.” 4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point,[c] saying, 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision,[d] an object something like a large sheet descending,[e] being let down from heaven[f] by its four corners, and it came to me.
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- Acts 11:3 tn Or “You were a guest in the home of” (according to L&N 23.12).
- Acts 11:3 tn Or “and ate with.” It was table fellowship and the possibility of eating unclean food that disturbed them.
- Acts 11:4 tn Or “to them in logical sequence,” “to them in order.” BDAG 490 s.v. καθεξῆς has “explain to someone point by point” for this phrase. This is the same term used in Luke 1:3.
- Acts 11:5 tn This term describes a supernatural vision and reflects a clear distinction from something imagined (BDAG 718 s.v. ὅραμα 1). Peter repeated the story virtually word for word through v. 13. The repetition with this degree of detail shows the event’s importance.
- Acts 11:5 tn Or “coming down.”
- Acts 11:5 tn Or “the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
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