Acts 9:5-6

9:5 So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” He replied, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting! 9:6 But stand up ¹  and enter the city and you will be told ²  what you must do.”

Acts 22:10

22:10 So I asked, ³  ‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Get up ⁴  and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything ⁵  that you have been designated ⁶  to do.’

Acts 22:1

Paul’s Defense

22:1 “Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense ⁷  that I now ⁸  make to you.”

Acts 3:10

3:10 and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations ⁹  at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement ¹⁰  at what had happened to him.

¹ tn Or “But arise.”

² tn Literally a passive construction, “it will be told to you.” This has been converted to another form of passive construction in the translation.

³ tn Grk “So I said.”

⁴ tn Grk “Getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.

⁵ tn Grk “about all things.”

⁶ tn Or “assigned,” “ordered.” BDAG 991 s.v. τάσσω 2.a has “act. and pass., foll. by acc. w. inf.…περὶ πάντων ὧν τέτακταί σοι ποιῆσαι concerning everything that you have been ordered to do 22:10.” There is an allusion to a divine call and commission here.

⁷ sn Listen to my defense. This is the first of several speeches Paul would make in his own defense: Acts 24:10ff.; 25:8, 16; and 26:1ff. For the use of such a speech (“apologia”) in Greek, see Josephus, Ag. Ap. 2.15 [2.147]; Wis 6:10.

⁸ tn The adverb νυνί (nuni, “now”) is connected with the phrase τῆς πρὸς ὑμᾶς νυνὶ ἀπολογίας (th" pro" Juma" nuni apologia") rather than the verb ἀκούσατε (akousate), and the entire construction (prepositional phrase plus adverb) is in first attributive position and thus translated into English by a relative clause.

⁹ tn Grk “alms,” but this term is not in common use today, so the closest modern equivalent, “donations,” is used instead. The idea is that of a donation to charity.

¹⁰ sn Amazement is a frequent response to miracles of Jesus or the apostles. These took the ancients by as much surprise as they would people today. But in terms of response to what God is doing, amazement does not equal faith (Luke 4:36; 5:9, 26; 7:16).