Acts 8:30

8:30 So Philip ran up ¹  to it ²  and heard the man ³  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ⁴  asked him, ⁵  “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Acts 21:38

21:38 Then you’re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion ⁶  and led the four thousand men of the ‘Assassins’ ⁷  into the wilderness ⁸  some time ago?” ⁹ 

¹ tn The participle προσδραμών (prosdramwn) is regarded as attendant circumstance.

² tn The words “to it” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

³ tn Grk “heard him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

⁵ tn Grk “he said”; but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.”

⁶ tn L&N 39.41 has “οὐκ ἄρα σὺ εἶ ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ὁ πρὸ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀναστατώσας ‘then you are not that Egyptian who some time ago started a rebellion’ Ac 21:38.”

⁷ tn Grk “of the Sicarii.”

⁸ tn Or “desert.”

⁹ tn Grk “before these days.”