translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ACT

label: NET study note

text: Proselytes refers to Gentile (i.e., non-Jewish) converts to Judaism.


text: Note how in the quotation that follows all genders, ages, and classes are included. The event is like a hope Moses expressed in Num 11:29 .


text: The phrase in the last days is not quoted from Joel, but represents Peter’s interpretive explanation of the current events as falling “in the last days.”


text: The words and they will prophesy in Acts 2:18 are not quoted from Joel 2:29 at this point but are repeated from earlier in the quotation ( Acts 2:17 ) for emphasis. Tongues speaking is described as prophecy, just like intelligible tongues are described in 1 Cor 14:26-33 .


text: A quotation from Joel 2:28-32 .


text: The term translated pains is frequently used to describe pains associated with giving birth (see Rev 12:2 ). So there is irony here in the mixed metaphor.


text: A quotation from Ps 16:8-11 .


text: Peter’s certainty is based on well-known facts.


text: An allusion to Ps 132:11 and 2 Sam 7:12-13 , the promise in the Davidic covenant.


text: An allusion to Ps 16:10 .


text: The expression the right hand of God represents supreme power and authority. Its use here sets up the quotation of Ps 110:1 in v. 34 .


text: The use of the verb poured out looks back to 2:17-18 , where the same verb occurs twice.


text: Sit at my right hand. The word “sit” alludes back to the promise of “seating one on his throne” in v. 30 .


text: The metaphor make your enemies a footstool portrays the complete subjugation of the enemies.


text: A quotation from Ps 110:1 , one of the most often-cited OT passages in the NT, pointing to the exaltation of Jesus.


text: Lord. This looks back to the quotation of Ps 110:1 and the mention of “calling on the Lord” in 2:21 . Peter’s point is that the Lord on whom one calls for salvation is Jesus, because he is the one mediating God’s blessing of the Spirit as a sign of the presence of salvation and the last days.


text: The promise refers to the promise of the Holy Spirit that Jesus received from the Father in 2:33 and which he now pours out on others. The promise consists of the Holy Spirit (see note in 2:33 ). Jesus is the active mediator of God’s blessing.


text: Fellowship refers here to close association involving mutual involvement and relationships.


text: The term glad ( Grk “gladness”) often refers to joy brought about by God’s saving acts ( Luke 1:14, 44 ; also the related verb in 1:47; 10:21 ).