Acts 13:19

13:19 After ¹  he had destroyed ²  seven nations ³  in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance. ⁴ 

Acts 9:4

9:4 He ⁵  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ⁶  why are you persecuting me?” ⁷ 

Acts 7:3

7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ ⁸ 

Acts 27:44

27:44 and the rest were to follow, ⁹  some on planks ¹⁰  and some on pieces of the ship. ¹¹  And in this way ¹²  all were brought safely to land.

Acts 4:24

4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ¹³  and said, “Master of all, ¹⁴  you who made the heaven, the earth, ¹⁵  the sea, and everything that is in them,

Acts 7:4

7:4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God ¹⁶  made him move ¹⁷  to this country where you now live.

Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ¹⁸  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself ¹⁹  by kicking against the goads.’ ²⁰ 

Acts 27:39

Paul is Shipwrecked

27:39 When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed ²¹  a bay ²²  with a beach, ²³  where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

Acts 27:43

27:43 But the centurion, ²⁴  wanting to save Paul’s life, ²⁵  prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land, ²⁶ 

Acts 14:15

14:15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures ²⁷  just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn ²⁸  from these worthless ²⁹  things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, ³⁰  the sea, and everything that is in them.

[13:19]  ¹ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[13:19]  ² tn The participle καθελών (kaqelwn) is taken temporally.

[13:19]  ³ sn Seven nations. See Deut 7:1.

[13:19]  ⁴ tn Grk “he gave their land as an inheritance.” The words “his people” are supplied to complete an ellipsis specifying the recipients of the land.

[9:4]  ⁵ 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.

[9:4]  ⁶ tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

[9:4]  ⁷ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

[7:3]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.

[27:44]  ¹³ tn The words “were to follow” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. They must be supplied to clarify the sense in contemporary English.

[27:44]  ¹⁴ tn Or “boards” according to BDAG 913 s.v. σανίς.

[27:44]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “on pieces from the ship”; that is, pieces of wreckage from the ship.

[27:44]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “And in this way it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[4:24]  ¹⁷ sn With one mind. Compare Acts 1:14.

[4:24]  ¹⁸ tn Or “Lord of all.”

[4:24]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[7:4]  ²¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:4]  ²² tn The translation “made him move” for the verb μετοικίζω (metoikizw) is given by L&N 85.83. The verb has the idea of “resettling” someone (BDAG 643 s.v.); see v. 43, where it reappears.

[26:14]  ²⁵ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

[26:14]  ²⁶ tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

[26:14]  ²⁷ tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.

[27:39]  ²⁹ tn Or “observed,” “saw.”

[27:39]  ³⁰ tn Or “gulf” (BDAG 557 s.v. κόλπος 3).

[27:39]  ³¹ sn A beach would refer to a smooth sandy beach suitable for landing.

[27:43]  ³³ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[27:43]  ³⁴ tn Or “wanting to rescue Paul.”

[27:43]  ³⁵ tn BDAG 347 s.v. I. ἔξειμι has “ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν get to land Ac 27:43.”

[14:15]  ³⁷ tn Grk “with the same kinds of feelings,” L&N 25.32. BDAG 706 s.v. ὁμοιοπαθής translates the phrase “with the same nature τινί as someone.” In the immediate context, the contrast is between human and divine nature, and the point is that Paul and Barnabas are mere mortals, not gods.

[14:15]  ³⁸ tn Grk “in order that you should turn,” with ἐπιστρέφειν (epistrefein) as an infinitive of purpose, but this is somewhat awkward contemporary English. To translate the infinitive construction “proclaim the good news, that you should turn,” which is much smoother English, could give the impression that the infinitive clause is actually the content of the good news, which it is not. The somewhat less formal “to get you to turn” would work, but might convey to some readers manipulativeness on the part of the apostles. Thus “proclaim the good news, so that you should turn,” is used, to convey that the purpose of the proclamation of good news is the response by the hearers. The emphasis here is like 1 Thess 1:9-10.

[14:15]  ³⁹ tn Or “useless,” “futile.” The reference is to idols and idolatry, worshiping the creation over the Creator (Rom 1:18-32). See also 1 Kgs 16:2, 13, 26; 2 Kgs 17:15; Jer 2:5; 8:19; 3 Macc 6:11.

[14:15]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.