39 Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.
40 Or “reported,” “described.”
41 ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”
42 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 λαμβάνω 6.
43 In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.

In other versions

Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.

Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

Peter has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself.

Simeon has described how God first concerned himself to take from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

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