Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 8:15

8:15 These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 25:1

Paul Appeals to Caesar

25:1 Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.


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

tn Or “speak.”

tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the phrase “these two” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style.

tn BDAG 736-37 s.v. οὖν 2.b states, “οὖν serves to indicate a transition to someth. new…now, then, well…Ac 25:1.”

sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. This was a journey of 65 mi (just over 100 km).