Acts 20:21

20:21 testifying ¹  to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ² 

Acts 20:27

20:27 For I did not hold back from ³  announcing ⁴  to you the whole purpose ⁵  of God.

Acts 20:31

20:31 Therefore be alert, ⁶  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁷  each one of you with tears.

[20:21]  ¹ tn BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 1 has “testify of, bear witness to (orig. under oath)…of repentance to Judeans and Hellenes Ac 20:21.”

[20:21]  ² tc Several mss, including some of the more important ones (Ì⁷⁴ א Α C [D] E 33 36 323 945 1175 1241 1505 1739 pm and a number of versions), read Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) at the end of this verse. This word is lacking in B H L P Ψ 614 pm. Although the inclusion is supported by many earlier and better mss, internal evidence is on the side of the omission: In Acts, both “Lord Jesus” and “Lord Jesus Christ” occur, though between 16:31 and the end of the book “Lord Jesus Christ” appears only in 28:31, perhaps as a kind of climactic assertion. Thus, the shorter reading is to be preferred.

[20:27]  ³ tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”

[20:27]  ⁴ tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”

[20:27]  ⁵ tn Or “plan.”

[20:31]  ⁵ tn Or “be watchful.”

[20:31]  ⁶ tn Or “admonishing.”