( Az-Zukhruf 43:59
“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified
His SERVANT
Jesus” (Acts 3:13).
Peter further said: “God raised up his
Not only Peter, but the entire group of believers viewed Jesus as God’s servant.
When they raised their voices together in prayer to God, in the course of their speaking to God they called Jesus
“your holy SERVANT
Jesus whom you anointed” (Acts 4:27).
They repeated this title also in verse 30.
Consistently, Jesus was being called servant of God by the original followers of Jesus.
An inconsistency of translation actually helped to give this wrong impression.
The translators knew that the Greek word paida means servant. When the same word was used for David in chapter 4, verse 25, they translated it “servant”. Why not call Jesus also by the same title 
Or, if they feel that “son” is the correct translation, why not also call David “Son of God” 
Jesus and David are both called by the same title in Greek. Why not call them by a same title in English also 
Nevertheless, the fact that Jesus was God’s servant was so well known that even the King James Bible called him by this title in Matthew 12:18. Referring back to Isaiah 42:1, Matthew identified Jesus as the servant of the one true God Yahweh.

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