Acts 20:4

20:4 Paul ¹  was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, ²  Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, ³  Gaius ⁴  from Derbe, ⁵  and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia. ⁶ 

Acts 21:29

21:29 (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and ⁷  they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.) ⁸ 

¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn Berea (alternate spelling in NRSV Beroea; Greek Beroia) was a very old city in Macedonia on the river Astraeus about 45 mi (75 km) from Thessalonica.

³ tn Grk “of the Thessalonians.”

⁴ tn Grk “and Gaius,” but this καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁵ sn Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 30 mi (50 km) southeast of Lystra.

⁶ tn Grk “the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus.” In the NT “Asia” always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.

⁷ tn Grk “whom.”

⁸ tn On the phrase “inner temple courts” see the note on the word “temple” in v. 28.