Acts 10:31

10:31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity ¹  have been remembered before God. ² 

Acts 22:2

22:2 (When they heard ³  that he was addressing ⁴  them in Aramaic, ⁵  they became even ⁶  quieter.) ⁷  Then ⁸  Paul said,

Acts 25:22

25:22 Agrippa ⁹  said to Festus, ¹⁰  “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, ¹¹  “you will hear him.”

Acts 26:25

26:25 But Paul replied, ¹²  “I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus, ¹³  but am speaking ¹⁴  true and rational ¹⁵  words.

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 ἀκούσαντες (akousante") has been taken temporally.

⁴ 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.”

⁵ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See the note on “Aramaic” in 21:40.

⁶ 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.”

⁷ tn BDAG 440 s.v. ἡσυχία 2 has “παρέχειν ἡσυχίαν quiet down, give a hearing…Ac 22:2.”

⁸ 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.

⁵ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

⁶ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

⁷ tn Grk “said.”

⁷ tn Grk “said.”

⁸ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

⁹ tn Or “declaring.” BDAG 125 s.v. ἀποφθέγγομαι states, “speak out, declare boldly or loudly…τὶ: σωφροσύνης ῥήματα Ac 26:25.”

¹⁰ 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.”