Acts 26:22

26:22 I have experienced ¹  help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except ²  what the prophets and Moses said ³  was going to happen:

Mark 6:20

6:20 because Herod stood in awe of ⁴  John and protected him, since he knew that John ⁵  was a righteous and holy man. When Herod ⁶  heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, ⁷  and yet ⁸  he liked to listen to John. ⁹ 

Luke 19:3

19:3 He ¹⁰  was trying to get a look at Jesus, ¹¹  but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. ¹² 

Luke 23:8

23:8 When ¹³  Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform ¹⁴  some miraculous sign. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “So experiencing…I stand.” The participle τυχών (tucwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

² tn BDAG 311 s.v. ἐκτός 3.b, “functions as prep. w. gen. οὐδὲν ἐ. ὧν nothing except what (cf. 1 Ch 29:3; 2 Ch 17:19; TestNapht. 6:2) Ac 26:22.”

³ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.

⁴ tn Grk “was fearing,” “was respecting”; the imperfect tense connotes an ongoing fear or respect for John.

⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tc In place of ἠπόρει (hporei, “he was baffled”) the majority of mss (A C D ˹ 33 Ï lat sy) have ἐποίει (epoiei, “he did”; cf. KJV’s “he did many things.”) The best mss (א B L [W] Θ 2427 co) support the reading followed in the translation. The variation may be no more than a simple case of confusion of letters, since the two readings look very much alike. The verb ποιέω (poiew, “I do”) certainly occurs more frequently than ἀπορέω (aporew, “I am at a loss”), so a scribe would be more likely to write a more familiar word. Further, even though the reading ἐποίει is the harder reading in terms of the sense, it is virtually nonsensical here, rendering it most likely an unintentional corruption.

⁸ tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “and yet” to indicate the concessive nature of the final clause.

⁹ tn Grk “him”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹¹ tn Grk “He was trying to see who Jesus was.”

¹² tn Grk “and he was not able to because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.”

¹³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁴ tn Grk “to see some sign performed by him.” Here the passive construction has been translated as an active one in keeping with contemporary English style.

¹⁵ sn Herod, hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign, seems to have treated Jesus as a curiosity (cf. 9:7-9).