Acts 10:11

10:11 He ¹  saw heaven ²  opened ³  and an object something like a large sheet ⁴  descending, ⁵  being let down to earth ⁶  by its four corners.

Acts 12:13

12:13 When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered. ⁷ 

Acts 12:16

12:16 Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door ⁸  and saw him, they were greatly astonished. ⁹ 

[10:11]  ¹ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[10:11]  ² tn Or “the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

[10:11]  ³ tn On the heavens “opening,” see Matt 3:16; Luke 3:21; Rev 19:11 (cf. BDAG 84 s.v. ἀνοίγω 2). This is the language of a vision or a revelatory act of God.

[10:11]  ⁴ tn Or “a large linen cloth” (the term was used for the sail of a ship; BDAG 693 s.v. ὀθόνη).

[10:11]  ⁵ tn Or “coming down.”

[10:11]  ⁶ tn Or “to the ground.”

[12:13]  ⁷ tn Or “responded.”

[12:16]  ¹³ tn The words “the door” are not in the Greek text, but are implied (see Acts 12:13).

[12:16]  ¹⁴ sn That they were greatly astonished is a common response in Luke-Acts to God’s work (Luke 8:56; Acts 2:7, 12; 8:13; 9:21; 10:45).