Acts 28:30

28:30 Paul ¹  lived ²  there two whole years in his own rented quarters ³  and welcomed ⁴  all who came to him,

Acts 14:22

14:22 They strengthened ⁵  the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue ⁶  in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom ⁷  of God through many persecutions.” ⁸ 

[28:30]  ¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:30]  ² tn Or “stayed.”

[28:30]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “two whole years at his own expense.” BDAG 654 s.v. μίσθωμα states, “the customary act. mng. ‘contract price, rent’…is not found in our lit. (Ac) and the pass. what is rented, a rented house is a mng. not found outside it (even Ammonius Gramm. [100 ad] p. 93 Valck. knows nothing of it. Hence the transl. at his own expense [NRSV] merits attention) ἐν ἰδίῳ μισθώματι in his own rented lodgings Ac 28:30 (for the idea cp. Jos., Ant. 18, 235).”

[28:30]  ⁴ tn Or “and received.”

[14:22]  ⁵ tn Grk “to Antioch, strengthening.” Due to the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was started here. This participle (ἐπιστηρίζοντες, episthrizonte") and the following one (παρακαλοῦντες, parakalounte") have been translated as finite verbs connected by the coordinating conjunction “and.”

[14:22]  ⁶ sn And encouraged them to continue. The exhortations are like those noted in Acts 11:23; 13:43. An example of such a speech is found in Acts 20:18-35. Christianity is now characterized as “the faith.”

[14:22]  ⁷ sn This reference to the kingdom of God clearly refers to its future arrival.

[14:22]  ⁸ tn Or “sufferings.”