Acts 4:30

4:30 while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs ¹  and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Acts 26:1

Paul Offers His Defense

26:1 So Agrippa ²  said to Paul, “You have permission ³  to speak for yourself.” Then Paul held out his hand ⁴  and began his defense: ⁵ 

Acts 27:30

27:30 Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending ⁶  that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

¹ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

² sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

³ tn Grk “It is permitted for you.”

⁴ tn Or “extended his hand” (a speaker’s gesture).

⁵ tn Or “and began to speak in his own defense.”

³ tn BDAG 889 s.v. πρόφασις 2 states, “προφάσει ὡς under the pretext that, pretending that…Ac 27:30.” In other words, some of the sailors gave up hope that such efforts would work and instead attempted to escape while pretending to help.