Acts 23:29

23:29 I found he ¹  was accused with reference to controversial questions ²  about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment. ³ 

Acts 23:18

23:18 So the centurion ⁴  took him and brought him to the commanding officer ⁵  and said, “The prisoner Paul called ⁶  me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”

Acts 27:39

Paul is Shipwrecked

27:39 When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed ⁷  a bay ⁸  with a beach, ⁹  where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

[23:29]  ¹ tn Grk “whom I found.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“whom”) has been changed to a personal pronoun (“he”) and a new sentence begun in the translation at this point.

[23:29]  ² tn BDAG 428 s.v. ζήτημα states, “in our lit. only in Ac, w. the mng. it still has in Mod. Gk. (controversial) question, issue, argument…Ac 15:2; 26:3. ζ. περί τινος questions about someth.…18:15; 25:19. – In 23:29, since περί had already been used, the subj. of the discussion is added in the gen. ζ. τοῦ νόμου αὐτῶν.”

[23:29]  ³ tn Grk “but having no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.” BDAG 273-74 s.v. ἔγκλημα 1 has “legal t.t.…ἔ. ἄξιον θανάτου ἢ δεσμῶν a charge deserving death or imprisonment 23:29.”

[23:18]  ⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the centurion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:18]  ⁵ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 10.

[23:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “calling.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[27:39]  ⁷ tn Or “observed,” “saw.”

[27:39]  ⁸ tn Or “gulf” (BDAG 557 s.v. κόλπος 3).

[27:39]  ⁹ sn A beach would refer to a smooth sandy beach suitable for landing.