Acts 4:7

4:7 After ¹  making Peter and John ²  stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name ³  did you do this?”

Acts 4:14

4:14 And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this. ⁴ 

Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts ⁵  and proclaim ⁶  to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 9:7

9:7 (Now the men ⁷  who were traveling with him stood there speechless, ⁸  because they heard the voice but saw no one.) ⁹ 

Acts 24:20

24:20 Or these men here ¹⁰  should tell what crime ¹¹  they found me guilty of ¹²  when I stood before the council, ¹³ 

Acts 25:18

25:18 When his accusers stood up, they did not charge ¹⁴  him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. ¹⁵ 

Acts 26:6

26:6 And now I stand here on trial ¹⁶  because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors, ¹⁷ 

[4:7]  ¹ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new sentence is begun in the translation at the beginning of v. 7.

[4:7]  ² tn Grk “making them”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:7]  ³ sn By what name. The issue of the “name” comes up again here. This question, meaning “by whose authority,” surfaces an old dispute (see Luke 20:1-8). Who speaks for God about the ancient faith?

[4:14]  ⁴ tn Or “nothing to say in opposition.”

[5:20]  ⁷ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[5:20]  ⁸ tn Or “speak.”

[9:7]  ¹⁰ tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which is used only rarely in a generic sense of both men and women. In the historical setting here, Paul’s traveling companions were almost certainly all males.

[9:7]  ¹¹ tn That is, unable to speak because of fear or amazement. See BDAG 335 s.v. ἐνεός.

[9:7]  ¹² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. Acts 22:9 appears to indicate that they saw the light but did not hear a voice. They were “witnesses” that something happened.

[24:20]  ¹³ tn Grk “these [men] themselves.”

[24:20]  ¹⁴ tn Or “unrighteous act.”

[24:20]  ¹⁵ tn The words “me guilty of” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. L&N 88.23 has “αὐτοὶ οὗτοι εἰπάτωσαν τί εὗρον ἀδίκημα στάντος μου ‘let these men themselves tell what unrighteous act they found me guilty of’ Ac 24:20.”

[24:20]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

[25:18]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “they brought no charge of any of the evil deeds.” BDAG 31 s.v. αἰτία 3.b has “αἰτίαν φέρειν…bring an accusation Ac 25:18.” Since κατήγοροι (kathgoroi, “accusers”) in the previous clause is somewhat redundant with this, “charge” was used instead.

[25:18]  ¹⁷ tn Or “I was expecting.”

[26:6]  ¹⁹ tn BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5.a.α has “κρίνεσθαι ἐπί τινι be on trial because of a thing Ac 26:6.”

[26:6]  ²⁰ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”