Acts 8:1-2

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 8:1 tn The term ἀναίρεσις (anairesis) can refer to murder (BDAG 64 s.v.; 2 Macc 5:13; Josephus, Ant. 5.2.12 [5.165]).
2. Acts 8:1 tn Or “severe.”
3. Acts 8:1 tn Grk “Now there happened on that day a great persecution.” It is less awkward to say in English “Now on that day a great persecution began.”
4. Acts 8:1 sn All. Given that the Jerusalem church is still active after this and that the Hellenists are the focus of Acts 6-8, it is possible to argue that only the Hellenistic Christians were forced to scatter.
5. Acts 8:1 tn Or “countryside.”
6. Acts 8:2 tn “Some” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.
7. Acts 8:2 sn Made loud lamentation. For someone who was stoned to death, lamentation was normally not allowed (m. Sanhedrin 6:6). The remark points to an unjust death.
8. Acts 8:2 tn Or “mourned greatly for him.”