Acts 1:14

1:14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. ¹ 

Acts 2:46

2:46 Every day ²  they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, ³  breaking bread from ⁴  house to house, sharing their food with glad ⁵  and humble hearts, ⁶ 

Acts 5:12

The Apostles Perform Miraculous Signs and Wonders

5:12 Now many miraculous signs ⁷  and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By ⁸  common consent ⁹  they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico. ¹⁰ 

Acts 8:6

8:6 The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, ¹¹  as they heard and saw the miraculous signs ¹²  he was performing.

Acts 18:12

Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio

18:12 Now while Gallio ¹³  was proconsul ¹⁴  of Achaia, ¹⁵  the Jews attacked Paul together ¹⁶  and brought him before the judgment seat, ¹⁷ 

Acts 19:29

19:29 The ¹⁸  city was filled with the uproar, ¹⁹  and the crowd ²⁰  rushed to the theater ²¹  together, ²²  dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.

Acts 4:24

4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ²³  and said, “Master of all, ²⁴  you who made the heaven, the earth, ²⁵  the sea, and everything that is in them,

Acts 12:20

12:20 Now Herod ²⁶  was having an angry quarrel ²⁷  with the people of Tyre ²⁸  and Sidon. ²⁹  So they joined together ³⁰  and presented themselves before him. And after convincing ³¹  Blastus, the king’s personal assistant, ³²  to help them, ³³  they asked for peace, ³⁴  because their country’s food supply was provided by the king’s country.

[1:14]  ¹ sn Jesus’ brothers are mentioned in Matt 13:55 and John 7:3.

[2:46]  ² tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

[2:46]  ³ tn Grk “in the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[2:46]  ⁴ tn Here κατά (kata) is used as a distributive (BDAG 512 s.v. B.1.d).

[2:46]  ⁵ sn The term glad (Grk “gladness”) often refers to joy brought about by God’s saving acts (Luke 1:14, 44; also the related verb in 1:47; 10:21).

[2:46]  ⁶ tn Grk “with gladness and humbleness of hearts.” It is best to understand καρδίας (kardias) as an attributed genitive, with the two nouns it modifies actually listing attributes of the genitive noun which is related to them.

[5:12]  ³ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

[5:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “And by.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[5:12]  ⁵ tn Or “With one mind.”

[5:12]  ⁶ tn Or “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “to what was being said by Philip,” a passive construction that has been changed to active voice in the translation.

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Here the following context indicates the miraculous nature of the signs mentioned. This term appears 13 times in Acts, but only twice more after Acts 8:13 (i.e., 14:3; 15:12).

[18:12]  ⁵ sn Gallio was proconsul of Achaia from a.d. 51-52. This date is one of the firmly established dates in Acts. Lucius Junius Gallio was the son of the rhetorician Seneca and the brother of Seneca the philosopher. The date of Gallio’s rule is established from an inscription (W. Dittenberger, ed., Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 2.3 no. 8). Thus the event mentioned here is probably to be dated July-October a.d. 51.

[18:12]  ⁶ sn The proconsul was the Roman official who ruled over a province traditionally under the control of the Roman senate.

[18:12]  ⁷ sn Achaia was a Roman province created in 146 b.c. that included the most important parts of Greece (Attica, Boeotia, and the Peloponnesus).

[18:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “with one accord.”

[18:12]  ⁹ tn Although BDAG 175 s.v. βῆμα 3 gives the meaning “tribunal” for this verse and a number of modern translations use similar terms (“court,” NIV; “tribunal,” NRSV), there is no need for an alternative translation here since the bema was a standard feature in Greco-Roman cities of the time.

[19:29]  ⁶ tn Grk “And the.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[19:29]  ⁷ tn L&N 39.43 has “‘the uproar spread throughout the whole city’ (literally ‘the city was filled with uproar’) Ac 19:29.” BDAG 954 s.v. σύγχυσις has “confusion, tumult.”

[19:29]  ⁸ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:29]  ⁹ sn To the theater. This location made the event a public spectacle. The Grand Theater in Ephesus (still standing today) stood facing down the main thoroughfare of the city toward the docks. It had a seating capacity of 25,000.

[19:29]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “to the theater with one accord.”

[4:24]  ⁷ sn With one mind. Compare Acts 1:14.

[4:24]  ⁸ tn Or “Lord of all.”

[4:24]  ⁹ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[12:20]  ⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:20]  ⁹ tn Or “was extremely angry.” L&N 33.453 gives the meaning “be angry and quarrel, quarrel angrily” here. However, in L&N 88.180 the alternative “to be violently angry, to be furious” is given. The term is used only once in the NT (BDAG 461 s.v. θυμομαχέω).

[12:20]  ¹⁰ sn Tyre was a city and seaport on the coast of Phoenicia.

[12:20]  ¹¹ sn Sidon was an ancient Phoenician royal city on the coast between Berytus (Beirut) and Tyre (BDAG 923 s.v. Σιδών).

[12:20]  ¹² tn Or “with one accord.”

[12:20]  ¹³ tn Or “persuading.”

[12:20]  ¹⁴ tn On the term translated “personal assistant” BDAG 554 s.v. κοιτῶν states, “used as part of a title: ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ κοιτῶνος the one in charge of the bed-chamber, the chamberlain.” This individual was not just a domestic servant or butler, but a highly respected person who had considerable responsibility for the king’s living quarters and personal affairs. The English word “chamberlain” corresponds very closely to this meaning but is not in common use today. The term “personal assistant,” while it might convey more business associations than management of personal affairs, nevertheless communicates the concept well in contemporary English.

[12:20]  ¹⁵ tn The words “to help them” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[12:20]  ¹⁶ tn Or “for a reconciliation.” There were grave political risks in having Herod angry at them. The detail shows the ruler’s power.