Acts 7:38

7:38 This is the man who was in the congregation ¹  in the wilderness ²  with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, ³  and he ⁴  received living oracles ⁵  to give to you. ⁶ 

Acts 11:26

11:26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. ⁷  So ⁸  for a whole year Barnabas and Saul ⁹  met with the church and taught a significant number of people. ¹⁰  Now it was in Antioch ¹¹  that the disciples were first called Christians. ¹² 

Acts 16:13

16:13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down ¹³  and began to speak ¹⁴  to the women ¹⁵  who had assembled there. ¹⁶ 

¹ tn This term, ἐκκλησία (ekklhsia), is a secular use of the term that came to mean “church” in the epistles. Here a reference to an assembly is all that is intended.

² tn Or “desert.”

³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

⁴ tn Grk “fathers, who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “he” and a new clause introduced by “and” was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style.

⁵ tn Or “messages.” This is an allusion to the law given to Moses.

⁶ tc ‡ The first person pronoun ἡμῖν (Jhmin, “to us”) is read by A C D E Ψ 33 1739 Ï lat sy, while the second person pronoun ὑμῖν (Jumin, “to you”) is read by Ì⁷⁴ א B 36 453 al co. The second person pronoun thus has significantly better external support. As well, ὑμῖν is a harder reading in this context, both because it is surrounded by first person pronouns and because Stephen perhaps “does not wish to disassociate himself from those who received God’s revelation in the past, but only from those who misinterpreted and disobeyed that revelation” (TCGNT 307). At the same time, Stephen does associate himself to some degree with his disobedient ancestors in v. 39, suggesting that the decisive break does not really come until v. 51 (where both his present audience and their ancestors are viewed as rebellious). Thus, both externally and internally ὑμῖν is the preferred reading.

⁷ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.

⁸ tn Grk “So it happened that” 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.

⁹ tn Grk “year they”; the referents (Barnabas and Saul) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Grk “a significant crowd.”

¹¹ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.

¹² sn The term Christians appears only here, in Acts 26:28, and 1 Pet 4:16 in the NT.

¹³ tn Grk “and sitting down we began to speak.” The participle καθίσαντες (kaqisante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹⁴ tn The imperfect verb ἐλαλοῦμεν (elaloumen) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

¹⁵ sn To the women. Apparently there were not enough Jews present in Philippi to have a synagogue (ten men would have been required to have one).

¹⁶ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.