Acts 15:31

15:31 When they read it aloud, ¹  the people ²  rejoiced at its encouragement. ³ 

Acts 23:26

23:26 Claudius Lysias to His Excellency Governor ⁴  Felix, ⁵  greetings.

Acts 5:41

5:41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy ⁶  to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. ⁷ 

Acts 11:23

11:23 When ⁸  he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true ⁹  to the Lord with devoted hearts, ¹⁰ 

Acts 13:48

13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice ¹¹  and praise ¹²  the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life ¹³  believed.

Acts 15:23

15:23 They sent this letter with them: ¹⁴ 

From the apostles ¹⁵  and elders, your brothers, ¹⁶  to the Gentile brothers and sisters ¹⁷  in Antioch, ¹⁸  Syria, ¹⁹  and Cilicia, greetings!

Acts 8:39

8:39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but ²⁰  went on his way rejoicing. ²¹ 

[15:31]  ¹ tn Grk “read it.” The translation “read aloud” is used to indicate the actual practice of public reading; translating as “read” could be misunderstood to mean private, silent, or individual reading.

[15:31]  ² tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people) is specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:31]  ³ tn Or “at its encouraging message.”

[23:26]  ⁴ tn Grk “Procurator.” The official Roman title has been translated as “governor” (BDAG 433 s.v. ἡγεμών 2).

[23:26]  ⁵ sn Governor Felix. See the note on Felix in v. 24.

[5:41]  ⁷ sn That is, considered worthy by God. They “gloried in their shame” of honoring Jesus with their testimony (Luke 6:22-23; 2 Macc 6:30).

[5:41]  ⁸ sn The name refers to the name of Jesus (cf. 3 John 7).

[11:23]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Antioch, who when.” The relative pronoun was omitted and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[11:23]  ¹¹ tn BDAG 883 s.v. προσμένω 1.a.β has “remain true to the Lord” for προσμένειν (prosmenein) in this verse.

[11:23]  ¹² tn Grk “with purpose of heart”; BDAG 869 s.v. πρόθεσις 2.a translates this phrase “purpose of heart, i.e. devotion” here.

[13:48]  ¹³ tn The imperfect verb ἔχαιρον (ecairon) and the following ἐδόξαζον (edoxazon) are translated as ingressive imperfects.

[13:48]  ¹⁴ tn Or “glorify.” Although “honor” is given by BDAG 258 s.v. δοξάζω as a translation, it would be misleading here, because the meaning is “to honor in the sense of attributing worth to something,” while in contemporary English usage one speaks of “honoring” a contract in the sense of keeping its stipulations. It is not a synonym for “obey” in this context (“obey the word of the Lord”), but that is how many English readers would understand it.

[13:48]  ¹⁵ sn Note the contrast to v. 46 in regard to eternal life.

[15:23]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “writing by their hand” (an idiom for sending a letter).

[15:23]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “The apostles.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[15:23]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “brothers,” but “your” is supplied to specify the relationship, since without it “brothers” could be understood as vocative in English.

[15:23]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “to the brothers who are from the Gentiles.”

[15:23]  ²⁰ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia).

[15:23]  ²¹ tn Grk “and Syria,” but 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.

[8:39]  ¹⁹ tn BDAG 189 s.v. γάρ 2 indicates that under certain circumstances γάρ (gar) has the same meaning as δέ (de).

[8:39]  ²⁰ sn Note that the response to the gospel is rejoicing (joy, cf. Acts 11:23; 13:48).