Acts 10:21

10:21 So Peter went down ¹  to the men and said, “Here I am, ²  the person you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

Acts 13:29

13:29 When they had accomplished ³  everything that was written ⁴  about him, they took him down ⁵  from the cross ⁶  and placed him ⁷  in a tomb.

Acts 20:10

20:10 But Paul went down, ⁸  threw himself ⁹  on the young man, ¹⁰  put his arms around him, ¹¹  and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!” ¹² 

Acts 21:32

21:32 He ¹³  immediately took ¹⁴  soldiers and centurions ¹⁵  and ran down to the crowd. ¹⁶  When they saw ¹⁷  the commanding officer ¹⁸  and the soldiers, they stopped beating ¹⁹  Paul.

[10:21]  ¹ tn Grk “Peter going down to the men, said.” The participle καταβάς (katabas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[10:21]  ² tn Grk “Behold, it is I whom you seek,” or “Behold, I am the one you seek.” “Here I am” is used to translate ἰδοὺ ἐγώ εἰμι (idou egw eimi).

[13:29]  ³ tn Or “carried out.”

[13:29]  ⁴ sn That is, everything that was written in OT scripture.

[13:29]  ⁵ tn Grk “taking him down from the cross, they placed him.” The participle καθελόντες (kaqelonte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[13:29]  ⁶ tn Grk “tree,” but frequently figurative for a cross. The allusion is to Deut 21:23. See Acts 5:30; 10:39.

[13:29]  ⁷ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[20:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “going down.” The participle καταβάς (katabas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[20:10]  ⁶ tn BDAG 377 s.v. ἐπιπίπτω 1.b has “ἐπέπεσεν αὐτῷ he threw himself upon him Ac 20:10.”

[20:10]  ⁷ tn Grk “on him”; the referent (the young man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ⁸ tn BDAG 959 s.v. συμπεριλαμβάνω has “to throw one’s arms around, embrace w. acc. to be supplied Ac 20:10.” However, “embraced the young man” might be taken (out of context) to have erotic implications, while “threw his arms around him” would be somewhat redundant since “threw” has been used in the previous phrase.

[20:10]  ⁹ tn Grk “for his life is in him” (an idiom).

[21:32]  ⁷ tn Grk “who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, the relative pronoun (“who”) was translated as a pronoun (“he”) and a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

[21:32]  ⁸ tn Grk “taking…ran down.” The participle κατέδραμεν (katedramen) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[21:32]  ⁹ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[21:32]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:32]  ¹¹ tn Grk “seeing.” The participle ἰδόντες (idonte") has been taken temporally.

[21:32]  ¹² tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 31.

[21:32]  ¹³ sn The mob stopped beating Paul because they feared the Romans would arrest them for disturbing the peace and for mob violence. They would let the Roman officials take care of the matter from this point on.