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Acts 12:15

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12:15But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!”44 But she kept insisting that it was Peter,45 and they kept saying,46 “It is his angel!”47

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Footnotes

  1. 44 “You’ve lost your mind!” Such a response to the miraculous is not unusual in Luke-Acts. See Luke 24:11; Acts 26:25. The term μαίνομαι (mainomai) can have the idea of being “raving mad” or “totally irrational” ( ). It is a strong expression.
  2. 45 Grk “she kept insisting that the situation was thus” (cf. ἔχω 10.a). Most translations supply a less awkward English phrase like “it was so”; the force of her insistence, however, is that “it was Peter,” which was the point under dispute.
  3. 46 The two imperfect tense verbs, διϊσχυρίζετο (diischurizeto) and ἔλεγον (elegon), are both taken iteratively. The picture is thus virtually a shouting match between Rhoda and the rest of the believers.
  4. 47 The assumption made by those inside, “It is his angel,” seems to allude to the idea of an attending angel (cf. Gen 48:16 ; Matt 18:10; Test. Jacob 1:10).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“You’re out of your mind!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true, and they said, “It’s his angel.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“You’re out of your mind!” they said. When she insisted, they decided, “It must be his angel.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But they said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting it was so. And they kept saying, “It is his angel!”

KJV 1900King James Version

And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.