Acts 5:36-37

Context
5:36 For some time ago¹ Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He² was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.³ 5:37 After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census,⁴ and incited people to follow him in revolt.⁵ He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.

Matthew 5:11

Context

5:11 “Blessed are you when people⁶ insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely⁷ on account of me.

Matthew 5:1

Context

The Beatitudes

5:1 When⁸ he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain.⁹ After he sat down his disciples came to him.

Colossians 4:13

Context
4:13 For I can testify that he has worked hard¹⁰ for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

[5:36] ¹tn Grk “For before these days.”

[5:36] ²tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “he,” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point.

[5:36] ³tn Grk “and they came to nothing.” Gamaliel’s argument is that these two insurrectionists were taken care of by natural events.

[5:37] ⁴tn Or “registration.”

[5:37] ⁵tn The verb ἀφίστημι (afisthmi) as a transitive means “cause to revolt” as used in Josephus, Ant. 8.7.5 (8.198), 20.5.2 (20.102); see BDAG 157 s.v. 1.

[5:11] ⁶tn Grk “when they insult you.” The third person pronoun (here implied in the verb ὀνειδίσωσιν [ojneidiswsin]) has no specific referent, but refers to people in general.

[5:11] ⁷tc Although ψευδόμενοι (yeudomenoi, “bearing witness falsely”) could be a motivated reading, clarifying that the disciples are unjustly persecuted, its lack in only D it sy^s Tert does not help its case. Since the Western text is known for numerous free alterations, without corroborative evidence the shorter reading must be judged as secondary.

[5:1] ⁸tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[5:1] ⁹tn Or “up a mountain” (εἰς τὸ ὄρος, eis to oro").

[4:13] ¹⁰tn Grk “pain.” This word appears only three times in the NT outside of this verse (Rev 16:10, 11; 21:4) where the translation “pain” makes sense. For the present verse it has been translated “worked hard.” See BDAG 852 s.v. πόνος 1.