Discovery BoxActs 5:18
Context5:18 They 1 laid hands on 2 the apostles and put them in a public jail.
Acts 4:3
Context4:3 So 3 they seized 4 them and put them in jail 5 until the next day (for it was already evening).
Acts 12:1
Context12:1 About that time King Herod 6 laid hands on 7 some from the church to harm them. 8
Acts 21:27
Context21:27 When the seven days were almost over, 9 the Jews from the province of Asia 10 who had seen him in the temple area 11 stirred up the whole crowd 12 and seized 13 him,
[5:18] 1 tn Grk “jealousy, and they.” In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but a new sentence has been started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[5:18] 2 tn Or “they arrested.”
[4:3] 3 tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the logical sequence of events.
[4:3] 4 tn Or “they arrested”; Grk “they laid hands on.”
[4:3] 5 tn Or “prison,” “custody.”
[12:1] 5 sn King Herod was Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod I (Herod the Great). His mediocre career is summarized in Josephus, Ant. 18-19. This event took place in
[12:1] 6 tn Or “King Herod had some from the church arrested.”
[12:1] 7 tn Or “to cause them injury.”
[21:27] 7 tn BDAG 975 s.v. συντελέω 4 has “to come to an end of a duration, come to an end, be over…Ac 21:27.”
[21:27] 8 tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.
[21:27] 9 tn Grk “in the temple.” See the note on the word “temple” in v. 28.
[21:27] 10 tn Or “threw the whole crowd into consternation.” L&N 25.221 has “συνέχεον πάντα τὸν ὄχλον ‘they threw the whole crowd into consternation’ Ac 21:27. It is also possible to render the expression in Ac 21:27 as ‘they stirred up the whole crowd.’”
