Text -- Acts 18:21 (NET)

18:21 but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 18:21

¹ tn Or “but took leave of.”

² tn Grk “and saying”; the participle εἰπών (eipwn) has been translated as “added” rather than “said” to avoid redundancy with the previous “said farewell.” The participle εἰπών has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

³ tn Or “will return.”

⁴ tn The participle θέλοντος (qelontos), a genitive absolute construction, has been translated as a conditional adverbial participle. Again Paul acts in dependence on God.

⁵ tn A new sentence was begun here in the translation due to the length of the sentence in Greek and the requirements of contemporary English style, which generally uses shorter sentences.