Acts 5:18

5:18 They ¹  laid hands on ²  the apostles and put them in a public jail.

Acts 4:3

4:3 So ³  they seized ⁴  them and put them in jail ⁵  until the next day (for it was already evening).

Acts 27:12

27:12 Because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided ⁶  to put out to sea ⁷  from there. They hoped that ⁸  somehow they could reach ⁹  Phoenix, ¹⁰  a harbor of Crete facing ¹¹  southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

¹ tn Grk “jealousy, and they.” In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but a new sentence has been started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “they arrested.”

³ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the logical sequence of events.

⁴ tn Or “they arrested”; Grk “they laid hands on.”

⁵ tn Or “prison,” “custody.”

⁵ tn BDAG 181-82 s.v. βουλή 2.a, “β. τίθεσθαι (Judg 19:30; Ps 12:3) decide 27:12 (w. inf. foll.).”

⁶ tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4, “as a nautical t.t. (ἀ. τὴν ναῦν put a ship to sea), mid. or pass. ἀνάγεσθαι to begin to go by boat, put out to sea.”

⁷ tn Grk “from there, if somehow” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun here in the translation and the introductory phrase “They hoped that” supplied (with the subject, “they,” repeated from the previous clause) to make a complete English sentence.

⁸ tn Grk “if somehow, reaching Phoenix, they could…” The participle καταντήσαντες (katanthsante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁹ sn Phoenix was a seaport on the southern coast of the island of Crete. This was about 30 mi (48 km) further west.

¹⁰ tn Or “a harbor of Crete open to the southwest and northwest.”