Acts 13:10

13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ¹  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ² 

Acts 20:4

20:4 Paul ³  was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, ⁴  Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, ⁵  Gaius ⁶  from Derbe, ⁷  and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia. ⁸ 

[13:10]  ¹ tn Or “unscrupulousness.”

[13:10]  ² sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.

[20:4]  ³ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:4]  ⁴ sn Berea (alternate spelling in NRSV Beroea; Greek Beroia) was a very old city in Macedonia on the river Astraeus about 45 mi (75 km) from Thessalonica.

[20:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “of the Thessalonians.”

[20:4]  ⁶ tn Grk “and Gaius,” but this καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[20:4]  ⁷ sn Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 30 mi (50 km) southeast of Lystra.

[20:4]  ⁸ tn Grk “the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus.” In the NT “Asia” always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.