Acts 3:1

Peter and John Heal a Lame Man at the Temple

3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time ¹  for prayer, ²  at three o’clock in the afternoon. ³ 

Acts 20:11

20:11 Then Paul ⁴  went back upstairs, ⁵  and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them ⁶  a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Acts 21:12

21:12 When we heard this, both we and the local people ⁷  begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 21:31

21:31 While they were trying ⁸  to kill him, a report ⁹  was sent up ¹⁰  to the commanding officer ¹¹  of the cohort ¹²  that all Jerusalem was in confusion. ¹³ 

¹ tn Grk “hour.”

² sn Going up to the temple at the time for prayer. The earliest Christians, being of Jewish roots, were still participating in the institutions of Judaism at this point. Their faith in Christ did not make them non-Jewish in their practices.

³ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” This is calculated from sunrise (Josephus, Ant. 14.4.3 [14.65]; Dan 9:21).

⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Grk “going back upstairs.” The participle ἀναβάς (anabas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁶ tn Grk “talking with them.” The participle ὁμιλήσας (Jomilhsas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁷ tn Or “the people there.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “seeking.”

¹¹ tn Or “information” (originally concerning a crime; BDAG 1050 s.v. φάσις).

¹² tn Grk “went up”; this verb is used because the report went up to the Antonia Fortress where the Roman garrison was stationed.

¹³ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). In Greek the term χιλίαρχος (ciliarco") literally described the “commander of a thousand,” but it was used as the standard translation for the Latin tribunus militum or tribunus militare, the military tribune who commanded a cohort of 600 men.

¹⁴ sn A cohort was a Roman military unit of about 600 soldiers, one-tenth of a legion.

¹⁵ tn BDAG 953 s.v. συγχέω has “Pass. w. act.force be in confusion…ὅλη συγχύννεται ᾿Ιερουσαλήμ 21:31.”