1 tn Or “your gifts to the needy.”
2 sn This statement is a paraphrase rather than an exact quotation of Acts 10:4.
3 tn Grk “And bringing them outside, he asked.” The participle προαγαγών (proagagwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun by supplying the conjunction “then” to indicate the logical sequence.
4 tn The Greek term (δεῖ, dei) is used by Luke to represent divine necessity.
5 tn ἀκούσαντες (akousante") has been taken temporally.
6 tn Or “spoke out to.” L&N 33.27 has “to address an audience, with possible emphasis upon loudness – ‘to address, to speak out to.’ πολλῆς δέ σιγῆς γενομένης προσεφώνησεν τῇ ᾿Εβραίδι διαλέκτῳ ‘when they were quiet, he addressed them in Hebrew’ Ac 21:40.”
7 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See the note on “Aramaic” in 21:40.
8 tn BDAG 613-14 s.v. μᾶλλον 1 “Abs. μ. can mean to a greater degree (than before), even more, now more than ever Lk 5:15; Jn 5:18; 19:8; Ac 5:14; 22:2; 2 Cor 7:7.”
9 tn BDAG 440 s.v. ἡσυχία 2 has “παρέχειν ἡσυχίαν quiet down, give a hearing…Ac 22:2.”
10 tn Grk “and.” Since this represents a continuation of the speech begun in v. 1, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the logical sequence.
7 tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 24.
8 tn Grk “and said to.”
9 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn The word “citizen” is supplied here for emphasis and clarity.
11 tn Grk “He said.”
9 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
10 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
11 tn Grk “said.”
11 tn Grk “said.”
12 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
13 tn Or “declaring.” BDAG 125 s.v. ἀποφθέγγομαι states, “speak out, declare boldly or loudly…τὶ: σωφροσύνης ῥήματα Ac 26:25.”
14 tn BDAG 987 s.v. σωφροσύνη 1 has “gener. soundness of mind, reasonableness, rationality…ἀληθείας καὶ σωφροσύνης ῥήματα true and rational words (opp. μαίνομαι) Ac 26:25.”
13 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
14 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
15 tn Or “set free.”
16 tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).