Acts 16:2

16:2 The brothers in Lystra ¹  and Iconium ²  spoke well ³  of him. ⁴ 

Acts 14:1

Paul and Barnabas at Iconium

14:1 The same thing happened in Iconium ⁵  when Paul and Barnabas ⁶  went into the Jewish synagogue ⁷  and spoke in such a way that a large group ⁸  of both Jews and Greeks believed.

[16:2]  ¹ sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium.

[16:2]  ² sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 110 mi (175 km) east of Pisidian Antioch.

[16:2]  ³ tn For this sense of μαρτυρέω (marturew), see BDAG 618 s.v. 2.b.

[16:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.” Because of the awkwardness in English of having two relative clauses follow one another (“who was a believer…who was well spoken of”) and the awkwardness of the passive verb (“was well spoken of”), the relative pronoun at the beginning of 16:2 (“who”) has been translated as a pronoun (“him”) and the construction converted from passive to active at the same time a new sentence was started in the translation.

[14:1]  ⁵ sn Iconium. See the note in 13:51.

[14:1]  ⁶ tn Grk “they”; the referents (Paul and Barnabas) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:1]  ⁷ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

[14:1]  ⁸ tn Or “that a large crowd.”