Acts 3:19

Verse 19. Repent ye. Note, Mt 3:2. Therefore. Because of your sin in putting Jesus to death; and because he is the Messiah, and God through him is willing to show mercy to the chief of sinners. And be converted. This expression conveys an idea not at all to be found in the original. It conveys the idea of passivity--BE converted --as if they were to yield to some foreign influence that they were now resisting. But the idea of being passive in this, is not conveyed by the original word. The word means, properly, to turn; to return to a path from which one has gone astray; and then to turn away from sins, or to forsake them.