Acts 5:11

5:11 Great ¹  fear gripped ²  the whole church ³  and all who heard about these things.

Acts 13:6

13:6 When they had crossed over ⁴  the whole island as far as Paphos, ⁵  they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus, ⁶ 

Acts 28:30

28:30 Paul ⁷  lived ⁸  there two whole years in his own rented quarters ⁹  and welcomed ¹⁰  all who came to him,

Acts 7:11

7:11 Then a famine occurred throughout ¹¹  Egypt and Canaan, causing ¹²  great suffering, and our ¹³  ancestors ¹⁴  could not find food.

Acts 11:28

11:28 One of them, named Agabus, got up ¹⁵  and predicted ¹⁶  by the Spirit that a severe ¹⁷  famine ¹⁸  was about to come over the whole inhabited world. ¹⁹  (This ²⁰  took place during the reign of Claudius.) ²¹ 

[5:11]  ¹ tn Grk “And great.” 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.

[5:11]  ² tn Or “fear came on,” “fear seized”; Grk “fear happened to.”

[5:11]  ³ sn This is the first occurrence of the term church (ἐκκλησία, ekklhsia) in Acts. It refers to an assembly of people.

[13:6]  ⁴ tn Or “had passed through,” “had traveled through.”

[13:6]  ⁵ sn Paphos. A city on the southwestern coast of the island of Cyprus. It was the seat of the Roman proconsul.

[13:6]  ⁶ sn Named Bar-Jesus. “Jesus” is the Latin form of the name “Joshua.” The Aramaic “bar” means “son of,” so this man was surnamed “son of Joshua.” The scene depicts the conflict between Judaism and the emerging new faith at a cosmic level, much like the Simon Magus incident in Acts 8:9-24. Paul’s ministry looks like Philip’s and Peter’s here.

[28:30]  ⁷ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:30]  ⁸ tn Or “stayed.”

[28:30]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Or “and received.”

[7:11]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “came upon all Egypt.”

[7:11]  ¹¹ tn Grk “and,” but logically causal.

[7:11]  ¹² sn Our. Stephen spoke of “our” ancestors (Grk “fathers”) in an inclusive sense throughout the speech until his rebuke in v. 51, where the nation does what “your” ancestors did, at which point an exclusive pronoun is used. This serves to emphasize the rebuke.

[7:11]  ¹³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[11:28]  ¹³ tn Grk “getting up, predicted.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[11:28]  ¹⁴ tn Or “made clear”; Grk “indicated beforehand” (BDAG 920 s.v. σημαίνω 2).

[11:28]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “great.”

[11:28]  ¹⁶ sn This famine is one of the firmly fixed dates in Acts. It took place from a.d. 45-48. The events described in chap. 11 of Acts occurred during the early part of that period.

[11:28]  ¹⁷ tn Or “whole Roman Empire.” While the word οἰκουμένη (oikoumenh) does occasionally refer specifically to the Roman Empire, BDAG 699 s.v. οἰκουνένη 2 does not list this passage (only Acts 24:5 and 17:6).

[11:28]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “world, which.” The relative pronoun (“which”) was replaced by the demonstrative pronoun “this” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[11:28]  ¹⁹ sn This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author. Claudius was the Roman emperor Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus, known as Claudius, who ruled from a.d. 41-54.