Acts 1:6

1:6 So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, ¹  “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 2:1

The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost

2:1 Now ²  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Acts 11:22

11:22 A report ³  about them came to the attention ⁴  of the church in Jerusalem, ⁵  and they sent Barnabas ⁶  to Antioch. ⁷ 

Acts 12:1

James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12:1 About that time King Herod ⁸  laid hands on ⁹  some from the church to harm them. ¹⁰ 

Acts 12:5

12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly ¹¹  praying to God for him. ¹² 

Acts 12:22

12:22 But the crowd ¹³  began to shout, ¹⁴  “The voice of a god, ¹⁵  and not of a man!”

Acts 15:30

15:30 So when they were dismissed, ¹⁶  they went down to Antioch, ¹⁷  and after gathering the entire group ¹⁸  together, they delivered the letter.

Acts 21:22

21:22 What then should we do? They will no doubt ¹⁹  hear that you have come.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Grk “they began to ask him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. The imperfect tense of the Greek verb ἠρώτων (hrwtwn) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[2:1]  ² tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style does not.

[11:22]  ³ tn Grk “Word.”

[11:22]  ⁴ tn Grk “was heard in the ears,” an idiom. L&N 24.67 states that the idiom means “to hear in secret” (which it certainly does in Matt 10:27), but secrecy does not seem to be part of the context here, and there is no particular reason to suggest the report was made in secret.

[11:22]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:22]  ⁶ tc ‡ Most mss read the infinitive “to travel” after “Barnabas.” διελθεῖν (dielqein) is found before ἕως (Jews) in D E Ψ 33 Ï and some versional mss. It is lacking in Ì⁷⁴ א A B 81 1739 pc and some versional mss. Although the infinitive with ἕως fits Lukan style, it has the appearance of a scribal clarification. The infinitive has the earmarks of a Western expansion on the text and thus is unlikely to be original. NA²⁷ has the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

[11:22]  ⁷ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19. Again the Jerusalem church exercised an oversight role.

[12:1]  ⁴ sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in a.d. 42 or 43.

[12:1]  ⁵ tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”

[12:1]  ⁶ tn Or “to cause them injury.”

[12:5]  ⁵ tn Or “constantly.” This term also appears in Luke 22:14 and Acts 26:7.

[12:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “but earnest prayer was being made by the church to God for him.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to follow English style, and the somewhat awkward passive “prayer was being made” has been changed to the simpler active verb “were praying.” Luke portrays what follows as an answer to prayer.

[12:22]  ⁶ tn The translation “crowd” is given by BDAG 223 s.v. δῆμος; the word often means a gathering of citizens to conduct public business. Here it is simply the group of people gathered to hear the king’s speech.

[12:22]  ⁷ tn The imperfect verb ἐπεφώνει (epefwnei) is taken ingressively in the sequence of events. Presumably the king had started his speech when the crowd began shouting.

[12:22]  ⁸ sn The voice of a god. Contrast the response of Paul and Barnabas in Acts 14:13-15.

[15:30]  ⁷ tn Or “sent away.”

[15:30]  ⁸ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia).

[15:30]  ⁹ tn Or “congregation” (referring to the group of believers).

[21:22]  ⁸ tn L&N 71.16 has “pertaining to being in every respect certain – ‘certainly, really, doubtless, no doubt.’…‘they will no doubt hear that you have come’ Ac 21:22.”