Acts 1:2

1:2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, ¹  after he had given orders ²  by ³  the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Acts 17:15

17:15 Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, ⁴  and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. ⁵ 

[1:2]  ¹ tn The words “to heaven” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied from v. 11. Several modern translations (NIV, NRSV) supply the words “to heaven” after “taken up” to specify the destination explicitly mentioned later in 1:11.

[1:2]  ² tn Or “commands.” Although some modern translations render ἐντειλάμενος (enteilameno") as “instructions” (NIV, NRSV), the word implies authority or official sanction (G. Schrenk, TDNT 2:545), so that a word like “orders” conveys the idea more effectively. The action of the temporal participle is antecedent (prior) to the action of the verb it modifies (“taken up”).

[1:2]  ³ tn Or “through.”

[17:15]  ⁴ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[17:15]  ⁵ sn They left. See 1 Thess 3:1-2, which shows they went from here to Thessalonica.