Acts 4:25

4:25 who said by the Holy Spirit through ¹  your servant David our forefather, ² 

‘Why do the nations ³  rage, ⁴ 

and the peoples plot foolish ⁵  things?

Acts 6:12

6:12 They incited the people, the ⁶  elders, and the experts in the law; ⁷  then they approached Stephen, ⁸  seized him, and brought him before the council. ⁹ 

Acts 9:38

9:38 Because Lydda ¹⁰  was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Come to us without delay.” ¹¹ 

Acts 12:9

12:9 Peter ¹²  went out ¹³  and followed him; ¹⁴  he did not realize that what was happening through the angel was real, ¹⁵  but thought he was seeing a vision.

Acts 12:23

12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord ¹⁶  struck ¹⁷  Herod ¹⁸  down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died. ¹⁹ 

Acts 15:10

15:10 So now why are you putting God to the test ²⁰  by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke ²¹  that neither our ancestors ²²  nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 17:19

17:19 So they took Paul and ²³  brought him to the Areopagus, ²⁴  saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

Acts 19:29

19:29 The ²⁵  city was filled with the uproar, ²⁶  and the crowd ²⁷  rushed to the theater ²⁸  together, ²⁹  dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.

Acts 19:32

19:32 So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together. ³⁰ 

Acts 20:3

20:3 where he stayed ³¹  for three months. Because the Jews had made ³²  a plot ³³  against him as he was intending ³⁴  to sail ³⁵  for Syria, he decided ³⁶  to return through Macedonia. ³⁷ 

Acts 20:11

20:11 Then Paul ³⁸  went back upstairs, ³⁹  and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them ⁴⁰  a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Acts 20:31

20:31 Therefore be alert, ⁴¹  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁴²  each one of you with tears.

Acts 27:9

Caught in a Violent Storm

27:9 Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous ⁴³  because the fast ⁴⁴  was already over, ⁴⁵  Paul advised them, ⁴⁶ 

Acts 27:34

27:34 Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important ⁴⁷  for your survival. ⁴⁸  For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”

[4:25]  ¹ tn Grk “by the mouth of” (an idiom).

[4:25]  ² tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

[4:25]  ³ tn Or “Gentiles.”

[4:25]  ⁴ sn The Greek word translated rage includes not only anger but opposition, both verbal and nonverbal. See L&N 88.185.

[4:25]  ⁵ tn Or “futile”; traditionally, “vain.”

[6:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[6:12]  ⁷ tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 4:5.

[6:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “approaching, they seized him”; the referent (Stephen) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:12]  ⁹ tn Or “the Sanhedrin” (the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews). Stephen suffers just as Peter and John did.

[9:38]  ¹¹ sn Lydda was a city northwest of Jerusalem on the way to Joppa.

[9:38]  ¹² tn Grk “Do not delay to come to us.” It is somewhat smoother to say in English, “Come to us without delay.”

[12:9]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “And going out he followed.”

[12:9]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Peter going out followed him.” The participle ἐξελθών (exelqwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[12:9]  ¹⁸ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[12:9]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “what was done through the angel was a reality” (see BDAG 43 s.v. ἀληθής 3).

[12:23]  ²¹ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 5:19.

[12:23]  ²² sn On being struck…down by an angel, see Acts 23:3; 1 Sam 25:28; 2 Sam 12:15; 2 Kgs 19:35; 2 Chr 13:20; 2 Macc 9:5.

[12:23]  ²³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:23]  ²⁴ sn He was eaten by worms and died. Josephus, Ant. 19.8.2 (19.343-352), states that Herod Agrippa I died at Caesarea in a.d. 44. The account by Josephus, while not identical to Luke’s account, is similar in many respects: On the second day of a festival, Herod Agrippa appeared in the theater with a robe made of silver. When it sparkled in the sun, the people cried out flatteries and declared him to be a god. The king, carried away by the flattery, saw an owl (an omen of death) sitting on a nearby rope, and immediately was struck with severe stomach pains. He was carried off to his house and died five days later. The two accounts can be reconciled without difficulty, since while Luke states that Herod was immediately struck down by an angel, his death could have come several days later. The mention of worms with death adds a humiliating note to the scene. The formerly powerful ruler had been thoroughly reduced to nothing (cf. Jdt 16:17; 2 Macc 9:9; cf. also Josephus, Ant. 17.6.5 [17.168-170], which details the sickness which led to Herod the Great’s death).

[15:10]  ²⁶ tn According to BDAG 793 s.v. πειράζω 2.c, “In Ac 15:10 the πειράζειν τὸν θεόν consists in the fact that after God’s will has been clearly made known through granting of the Spirit to the Gentiles (v. 8), some doubt and make trial to see whether God’s will really becomes operative.” All testing of God in Luke is negative: Luke 4:2; 11:16.

[15:10]  ²⁷ sn A yoke is a wooden bar or frame that joins two animals like oxen or horses so that they can pull a wagon, plow, etc. together. Here it is used figuratively of the restriction that some in the early church wanted to place on Gentile converts to Christianity of observing the law of Moses and having males circumcised. The yoke is a decidedly negative image: Matt 23:4, but cf. Matt 11:29-30.

[15:10]  ²⁸ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[17:19]  ³¹ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:19]  ³² tn Or “to the council of the Areopagus.” See also the term in v. 22.

[19:29]  ³⁶ tn Grk “And the.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[19:29]  ³⁷ tn L&N 39.43 has “‘the uproar spread throughout the whole city’ (literally ‘the city was filled with uproar’) Ac 19:29.” BDAG 954 s.v. σύγχυσις has “confusion, tumult.”

[19:29]  ³⁸ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:29]  ³⁹ sn To the theater. This location made the event a public spectacle. The Grand Theater in Ephesus (still standing today) stood facing down the main thoroughfare of the city toward the docks. It had a seating capacity of 25,000.

[19:29]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “to the theater with one accord.”

[19:32]  ⁴¹ tn Or “had assembled.”

[20:3]  ⁴⁶ tn BDAG 841 s.v. ποιέω 5.c, “w. an acc. of time spend, stay.”

[20:3]  ⁴⁷ tn The participle βενομένης (benomenh") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle. L&N 30.71 has “ἐπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων ‘because the Jews had made a plot against him’ Ac 20:3.”

[20:3]  ⁴⁸ sn This plot is one of several noted by Luke (Acts 9:20; 20:19; 23:30).

[20:3]  ⁴⁹ tn BDAG 628 s.v. μέλλω 1.c.γ has “denoting an intended action: intend, propose, have in mind…Ac 17:31; 20:3, 7, 13ab; 23:15; 26:2; 27:30.”

[20:3]  ⁵⁰ tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4 gives “put out to sea” here (as a nautical technical term). However, since the English expression “put out to sea” could be understood to mean Paul was already aboard the ship (which is not clear from the context), the simpler expression “sail” is used at this point in the translation.

[20:3]  ⁵¹ tn BDAG 199 s.v. γίνομαι 7 has “ἐγένετο γνώμης he decided Ac 20:3.”

[20:3]  ⁵² sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

[20:11]  ⁵¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:11]  ⁵² tn Grk “going back upstairs.” The participle ἀναβάς (anabas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[20:11]  ⁵³ tn Grk “talking with them.” The participle ὁμιλήσας (Jomilhsas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[20:31]  ⁵⁶ tn Or “be watchful.”

[20:31]  ⁵⁷ tn Or “admonishing.”

[27:9]  ⁶¹ tn Or “unsafe” (BDAG 383 s.v. ἐπισφαλής). The term is a NT hapax legomenon.

[27:9]  ⁶² sn The fast refers to the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. It was now into October and the dangerous winter winds would soon occur (Suetonius, Life of Claudius 18; Josephus, J. W. 1.14.2-3 [1.279-281]).

[27:9]  ⁶³ tn The accusative articular infinitive παρεληλυθέναι (parelhluqenai) after the preposition διά (dia) is causal. BDAG 776 s.v. παρέρχομαι 2 has “διὰ τὸ τὴν νηστείαν ἤδη παρεληλυθέναι because the fast was already over Ac 27:9.”

[27:9]  ⁶⁴ tn Grk “Paul advised, saying to them.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated. On the term translated “advised,” see BDAG 764 s.v. παραινέω, which usually refers to recommendations.

[27:34]  ⁶⁶ tn Or “necessary.” BDAG 873-74 s.v. πρός 1 has “πρ. τῆς σωτηρίας in the interest of safety Ac 27:34”; L&N 27.18 has “‘therefore, I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your deliverance’ or ‘…for your survival’ Ac 27:34.”

[27:34]  ⁶⁷ tn Or “deliverance” (‘salvation’ in a nontheological sense).