Acts 1:7

1:7 He told them, “You are not permitted to know ¹  the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Acts 1:25

1:25 to assume the task ²  of this service ³  and apostleship from which Judas turned aside ⁴  to go to his own place.” ⁵ 

Acts 2:6

2:6 When this sound ⁶  occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, ⁷  because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Acts 4:23

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4:23 When they were released, Peter and John ⁸  went to their fellow believers ⁹  and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 13:36

13:36 For David, after he had served ¹⁰  God’s purpose in his own generation, died, ¹¹  was buried with his ancestors, ¹²  and experienced ¹³  decay,

Acts 23:19

23:19 The commanding officer ¹⁴  took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked, “What is it that you want ¹⁵  to report to me?”

Acts 25:19

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

[1:7]  ¹ tn Grk “It is not for you to know.”

[1:25]  ² tn Grk “to take the place.”

[1:25]  ³ tn Or “of this ministry.”

[1:25]  ⁴ tn Or “the task of this service and apostleship which Judas ceased to perform.”

[1:25]  ⁵ sn To go to his own place. This may well be a euphemism for Judas’ judged fate. He separated himself from them, and thus separated he would remain.

[2:6]  ³ tn Or “this noise.”

[2:6]  ⁴ tn Or “was bewildered.”

[4:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “they”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity, since a new topic begins in v. 23 and the last specific reference to Peter and John in the Greek text is in 4:19.

[4:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “to their own [people].” In context this phrase is most likely a reference to other believers rather than simply their own families and/or homes, since the group appears to act with one accord in the prayer that follows in v. 24. At the literary level, this phrase suggests how Jews were now splitting into two camps, pro-Jesus and anti-Jesus.

[13:36]  ⁵ tn The participle ὑπηρετήσας (Juphrethsa") is taken temporally.

[13:36]  ⁶ tn The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the death of a believer.

[13:36]  ⁷ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “was gathered to his fathers” (a Semitic idiom).

[13:36]  ⁸ tn Grk “saw,” but the literal translation of the phrase “saw decay” could be misunderstood to mean simply “looked at decay,” while here “saw decay” is really figurative for “experienced decay.” This remark explains why David cannot fulfill the promise.

[23:19]  ⁶ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 10.

[23:19]  ⁷ tn Grk “you have,” but the expression “have to report” in English could be understood to mean “must report” rather than “possess to report.” For this reason the nearly equivalent expression “want to report,” which is not subject to misunderstanding, was used in the translation.

[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.”