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Acts 2:39-41
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39 For the promise[a] is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” 40 With many other words he testified[b] and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse[c] generation!” 41 So those who accepted[d] his message[e] were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people[f] were added.[g]

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  1. Acts 2:39 sn 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.
  2. Acts 2:40 tn Or “warned.”
  3. Acts 2:40 tn Or “crooked” (in a moral or ethical sense). See Luke 3:5.
  4. Acts 2:41 tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”
  5. Acts 2:41 tn Grk “word.”
  6. Acts 2:41 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).
  7. Acts 2:41 tn Or “were won over.”
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