Acts 5:18

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

Acts 6:6

6:6 They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed ³  and placed ⁴  their hands on them.

Acts 8:17

8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, ⁵  and they received the Holy Spirit. ⁶ 

Acts 13:3

13:3 Then, after they had fasted ⁷  and ⁸  prayed and placed their hands ⁹  on them, they sent them off.

Acts 15:41

15:41 He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening ¹⁰  the churches.

Acts 19:11

The Seven Sons of Sceva

19:11 God was performing extraordinary ¹¹  miracles by Paul’s hands,

Acts 19:18

19:18 Many of those who had believed came forward, ¹²  confessing and making their deeds known. ¹³ 

Acts 21:15

21:15 After these days we got ready ¹⁴  and started up ¹⁵  to Jerusalem.

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 Literally this is a participle in the Greek text (προσευξάμενοι, proseuxamenoi). It could be translated as a finite verb (“and they prayed and placed their hands on them”) but much smoother English results if the entire coordinate clause is converted to a relative clause that refers back to the apostles.

⁴ tn Or “laid.”

⁵ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ sn They received the Holy Spirit. It is likely this special distribution of the Spirit took place because a key ethnic boundary was being crossed. Here are some of “those far off” of Acts 2:38-40.

⁷ tn The three aorist participles νηστεύσαντες (nhsteusante"), προσευξάμενοι (proseuxamenoi), and ἐπιθέντες (epiqente") are translated as temporal participles. Although they could indicate contemporaneous time when used with an aorist main verb, logically here they are antecedent. On fasting and prayer, see Matt 6:5, 16; Luke 2:37; 5:33; Acts 14:23.

⁸ tn Normally English style, which uses a coordinating conjunction between only the last two elements of a series of three or more, would call for omission of “and” here. However, since the terms “fasting and prayer” are something of a unit, often linked together, the conjunction has been retained here.

⁹ sn The placing of hands on Barnabas and Saul (traditionally known as “the laying on of hands”) refers to an act picturing the commission of God and the church for the task at hand.

⁹ sn Strengthening. See Acts 14:22; 15:32; 18:23.

¹¹ tn BDAG 1019 s.v. τυγχάνω 2.d states, “δυνάμεις οὐ τὰς τυχούσας extraordinary miracles Ac 19:11.”

¹³ tn Grk “came”; the word “forward” is supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning and to conform to the contemporary English idiom.

¹⁴ tn Or “confessing and disclosing their deeds.” BDAG 59 s.v. ἀναγγέλλω 2 has “W. ἐξομολογεῖσθαι: ἀ. τὰς πράξεις αὐτο'ν make their deeds known Ac 19:18.”

¹⁵ tn Or “we made preparations.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “were going up”; the imperfect verb ἀνεβαίνομεν (anebainomen) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.