Acts 3:3

3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, ¹  he asked them for money. ² 

Acts 9:19

9:19 and after taking some food, his strength returned.

For several days ³  he was with the disciples in Damascus,

Acts 9:25

9:25 But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening ⁴  in the wall by lowering him in a basket. ⁵ 

Acts 15:14

15:14 Simeon ⁶  has explained ⁷  how God first concerned himself ⁸  to select ⁹  from among the Gentiles ¹⁰  a people for his name.

Acts 27:35

27:35 After he said this, Paul ¹¹  took bread ¹²  and gave thanks to God in front of them all, ¹³  broke ¹⁴  it, and began to eat.

¹ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

² tn Grk “alms.” See the note on the word “money” in the previous verse.

³ tn Grk “It happened that for several days.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

⁵ tn The opening in the wall is not specifically mentioned here, but the parallel account in 2 Cor 11:33 mentions a “window” or “opening” (θυρίς, quris) in the city wall through which Paul was lowered. One alternative to introducing mention of the opening is to translate Acts 9:25 “they let him down over the wall,” as suggested in L&N 7.61. This option is not employed by many translations, however, because for the English reader it creates an (apparent) contradiction between Acts 9:25 and 2 Cor 11:33. In reality the account here is simply more general, omitting the detail about the window.

⁶ tn On the term for “basket” used here, see BDAG 940 s.v. σπυρίς.

⁷ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

⁸ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

⁹ tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.

¹¹ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.

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

¹⁰ tn Grk “taking bread, gave thanks.” The participle λαβών (labwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹¹ tn Or “before them all,” but here this could be misunderstood to indicate a temporal sequence.

¹² tn Grk “and breaking it, he began.” The participle κλάσας (klasas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.