Acts 5:42

5:42 And every day both in the temple courts ¹  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ²  that Jesus was the Christ. ³ 

Acts 11:14

11:14 who will speak a message ⁴  to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’

Acts 16:31

16:31 They replied, ⁵  “Believe ⁶  in the Lord Jesus ⁷  and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16:34

16:34 The jailer ⁸  brought them into his house and set food ⁹  before them, and he rejoiced greatly ¹⁰  that he had come to believe ¹¹  in God, together with his entire household. ¹² 

Acts 20:20

20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ¹³  to you anything that would be helpful, ¹⁴  and from teaching you publicly ¹⁵  and from house to house,

[5:42]  ¹ tn Grk “temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper and has been translated accordingly.

[5:42]  ² tn Grk “teaching and evangelizing.” They were still obeying God, not men (see 4:18-20; 5:29).

[5:42]  ³ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[11:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “words” (ῥήματα, rJhmata), but in this context the overall message is meant rather than the individual words.

[16:31]  ⁷ tn Grk “said.”

[16:31]  ⁸ sn Here the summary term of response is a call to believe. In this context it refers to trusting the sovereign God’s power to deliver, which events had just pictured for the jailer.

[16:31]  ⁹ tc The majority of mss add Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) here (C D E Ψ 1739 Ï sy sa), but the best and earliest witnesses read simply τὸν κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton kurion Ihsoun, “the Lord Jesus”; Ì^74vid א A B 33 81 pc bo). The addition of “Christ” to “Lord Jesus” is an obviously motivated reading. Thus on both external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred.

[16:34]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the jailer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:34]  ¹¹ tn Grk “placed [food] on the table” (a figurative expression). Since the actual word for food is not specified, it would also be possible to translate “set a meal before them,” but since this is taking place in the middle of the night, the preparations necessary for a full meal would probably not have been made. More likely Paul and Silas were given whatever was on hand that needed little or no preparation.

[16:34]  ¹² tn Or “he was overjoyed.”

[16:34]  ¹³ tn The translation “come to believe” reflects more of the resultative nuance of the perfect tense here.

[16:34]  ¹⁴ tn The phrase “together with his entire household” is placed at the end of the English sentence so that it refers to both the rejoicing and the belief. A formal equivalence translation would have “and he rejoiced greatly with his entire household that he had come to believe in God,” but the reference to the entire household being baptized in v. 33 presumes that all in the household believed.

[20:20]  ¹³ tn Or “declaring.”

[20:20]  ¹⁴ tn Or “profitable.” BDAG 960 s.v. συμφέρω 2.b.α has “τὰ συμφέροντα what advances your best interests or what is good for you Ac 20:20,” but the broader meaning (s.v. 2, “to be advantageous, help, confer a benefit, be profitable/useful”) is equally possible in this context.

[20:20]  ¹⁵ tn Or “openly.”