Acts 7:14

7:14 So Joseph sent a message ¹  and invited ²  his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people ³  in all.

Acts 27:37

27:37 (We were in all two hundred seventy-six ⁴  persons on the ship.) ⁵ 

Acts 23:23

23:23 Then ⁶  he summoned ⁷  two of the centurions ⁸  and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea ⁹  along with seventy horsemen ¹⁰  and two hundred spearmen ¹¹  by ¹²  nine o’clock tonight, ¹³ 

[7:14]  ¹ tn The words “a message” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[7:14]  ² tn Or “Joseph had his father summoned” (BDAG 121 s.v. ἀποστέλλω 2.b).

[7:14]  ³ tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).

[27:37]  ⁴ tc One early ms (B) and an early version (sa) read “about seventy-six.” For discussion of how this variant probably arose, see F. F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles, 465.

[27:37]  ⁵ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[23:23]  ⁷ tn Grk “And.” Since this represents a response to the reported ambush, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the logical sequence.

[23:23]  ⁸ tn Grk “summoning…he said.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[23:23]  ⁹ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[23:23]  ¹⁰ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. This was a journey of about 65 mi (just over 100 km).

[23:23]  ¹¹ tn Or “cavalrymen.”

[23:23]  ¹² tn A military technical term of uncertain meaning. BDAG 217 s.v. δεξιολάβος states, “a word of uncertain mng., military t.t., acc. to Joannes Lydus…and Theophyl. Sim., Hist. 4, 1 a light-armed soldier, perh. bowman, slinger; acc. to a scholion in CMatthaei p. 342 body-guard….Spearman Goodspd., NRSV; ‘security officer’, GDKilpatrick, JTS 14, ’63, 393f.”

[23:23]  ¹³ tn Grk “from.”

[23:23]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “from the third hour of the night.”