Acts 13:10
Context13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, 1 you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? 2
Acts 18:25
Context18:25 He had been instructed in 3 the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm 4 he spoke and taught accurately the facts 5 about Jesus, although he knew 6 only the baptism of John.
Acts 22:4
Context22:4 I 7 persecuted this Way 8 even to the point of death, 9 tying up 10 both men and women and putting 11 them in prison,
[13:10] 1 tn Or “unscrupulousness.”
[13:10] 2 sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.
[18:25] 3 tn Or “had been taught.”
[18:25] 4 tn Grk “and boiling in spirit” (an idiom for great eagerness or enthusiasm; BDAG 426 s.v. ζέω).
[18:25] 5 tn Grk “the things.”
[18:25] 6 tn Grk “knowing”; the participle ἐπιστάμενος (epistameno") has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle.
[22:4] 7 tn Grk “who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“who”) was translated by the first person pronoun (“I”) and a new sentence begun in the translation.
[22:4] 8 sn That is, persecuted the Christian movement (Christianity). The Way is also used as a description of the Christian faith in Acts 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 24:14, 22).
[22:4] 9 tn BDAG 442-43 s.v. θάνατος 1.a has “διώκειν ἄχρι θανάτου persecute even to death Ac 22:4.”
[22:4] 10 tn Grk “binding.” See Acts 8:3.
[22:4] 11 tn BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 1.b has “W. local εἰς…εἰς φυλακήν put in prison Ac 8:3; cp. 22:4.”