Acts 15:14

15:14 Simeon39 has explained40 how God first concerned himself41 to select42 from among the Gentiles43 a people for his name.

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39	sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.
40	tn Or “reported,” “described.”
41	tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”
42	tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.
43	sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.