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Acts 13:40-42
New English Translation
Acts 13:40-42
New English Translation
40 Watch out,[a] then, that what is spoken about by[b] the prophets does not happen to you:
41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish![c]
For I am doing a work in your days,
a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”[d]
42 As Paul and Barnabas[e] were going out,[f] the people[g] were urging[h] them to speak about these things[i] on the next Sabbath.
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- Acts 13:40 sn The speech closes with a warning, “Watch out,” that also stresses culpability.
- Acts 13:40 tn Or “in.”
- Acts 13:41 tn Or “and die!”
- Acts 13:41 sn A quotation from Hab 1:5. The irony in the phrase even if someone tells you, of course, is that Paul has now told them. So the call in the warning is to believe or else face the peril of being scoffers whom God will judge. The parallel from Habakkuk is that the nation failed to see how Babylon’s rising to power meant perilous judgment for Israel.
- Acts 13:42 tn Grk “they”; the referents (Paul and Barnabas) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Acts 13:42 tn Or “were leaving.” The participle ἐξιόντων (exiontōn) is taken temporally.
- Acts 13:42 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Acts 13:42 tn Or “begging,” “inviting.”
- Acts 13:42 tn Or “matters.”
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