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 4:30

4:30 while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs ²  and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:33

4:33 With ³  great power the apostles were giving testimony ⁴  to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

Acts 5:40

5:40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. ⁵  Then ⁶  they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

Acts 8:12

8:12 But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God ⁷  and the name of Jesus Christ, ⁸  they began to be baptized, ⁹  both men and women.

Acts 16:7

16:7 When they came to ¹⁰  Mysia, ¹¹  they attempted to go into Bithynia, ¹²  but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow ¹³  them to do this, ¹⁴ 

Acts 25:19

25:19 Rather they had several points of disagreement ¹⁵  with him about their own religion ¹⁶  and about a man named Jesus ¹⁷  who was dead, whom Paul claimed ¹⁸  to be alive.

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

[4:30]  ² tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

[4:33]  ³ tn Grk “And with.” 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.

[4:33]  ⁴ tn Or “were witnessing.”

[5:40]  ⁴ sn Had them beaten. The punishment was the “forty lashes minus one,” see also Acts 22:19; 2 Cor 11:24; Mark 13:9. The apostles had disobeyed the religious authorities and took their punishment for their “disobedience” (Deut 25:2-3; m. Makkot 3:10-14). In Acts 4:18 they were warned. Now they are beaten. The hostility is rising as the narrative unfolds.

[5:40]  ⁵ tn The word “Then” is supplied as the beginning of a new sentence in the translation. The construction in Greek has so many clauses (most of them made up of participles) that a continuous English sentence would be very awkward.

[8:12]  ⁵ sn The kingdom of God is also what Jesus preached: Acts 1:3. The term reappears in 14:22; 19:8; 28:23, 31.

[8:12]  ⁶ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[8:12]  ⁷ tn The imperfect verb ἐβαπτίζοντο (ebaptizonto) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[16:7]  ⁶ tn BDAG 511 s.v. κατά B.1.b has “to Mysia” here.

[16:7]  ⁷ sn Mysia was a province in northwest Asia Minor.

[16:7]  ⁸ sn Bithynia was a province in northern Asia Minor northeast of Mysia.

[16:7]  ⁹ tn Or “permit”; see BDAG 269 s.v. ἐάω 1.

[16:7]  ¹⁰ tn The words “do this” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons, since English handles ellipses differently than Greek.

[25:19]  ⁷ tn Grk “several controversial issues.” BDAG 428 s.v. ζήτημα states, “in our lit. only in Ac, w. the mng. it still has in Mod. Gk. (controversial) question, issue, argument…Ac 15:2; 26:3. ζ. περί τινος questions about someth.…18:15; 25:19.”

[25:19]  ⁸ tn On this term see BDAG 216 s.v. δεισιδαιμονία 2. It is a broad term for religion.

[25:19]  ⁹ tn Grk “a certain Jesus.”

[25:19]  ¹⁰ tn Or “asserted.”