Acts 20:26

20:26 Therefore I declare ¹  to you today that I am innocent ²  of the blood of you all. ³ 

Acts 26:22

26:22 I have experienced ⁴  help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except ⁵  what the prophets and Moses said ⁶  was going to happen:

[20:26]  ¹ tn Or “testify.”

[20:26]  ² tn Grk “clean, pure,” thus “guiltless” (BDAG 489 s.v. καθαρός 3.a).

[20:26]  ³ tn That is, “that if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible” (an idiom). According to L&N 33.223, the meaning of the phrase “that I am innocent of the blood of all of you” is “that if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible.” However, due to the length of this phrase and its familiarity to many modern English readers, the translation was kept closer to formal equivalence in this case. The word “you” is not in the Greek text, but is implied; Paul is addressing the Ephesian congregation (in the person of its elders) in both v. 25 and 27.

[26:22]  ⁴ tn Grk “So experiencing…I stand.” The participle τυχών (tucwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[26:22]  ⁵ tn BDAG 311 s.v. ἐκτός 3.b, “functions as prep. w. gen. οὐδὲν ἐ. ὧν nothing except what (cf. 1 Ch 29:3; 2 Ch 17:19; TestNapht. 6:2) Ac 26:22.”

[26:22]  ⁶ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.