Acts 7:17

7:17 “But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, ¹  the people increased greatly in number ²  in Egypt,

Acts 10:9

10:9 About noon ³  the next day, while they were on their way and approaching ⁴  the city, Peter went up on the roof ⁵  to pray.

Acts 21:33

21:33 Then the commanding officer ⁶  came up and arrested ⁷  him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; ⁸  he ⁹  then asked who he was and what ¹⁰  he had done.

Acts 22:6

22:6 As ¹¹  I was en route and near Damascus, ¹²  about noon a very bright ¹³  light from heaven ¹⁴  suddenly flashed ¹⁵  around me.

[7:17]  ¹ tn Grk “But as the time for the fulfillment of the promise drew near that God had declared to Abraham.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to improve English style. See vv. 6-7 above.

[7:17]  ² tn Grk “the people increased and multiplied.”

[10:9]  ³ tn Grk “about the sixth hour.”

[10:9]  ⁴ tn The participles ὁδοιπορούντων (Jodoiporountwn, “while they were on their way”) and ἐγγιζόντων (engizontwn, “approaching”) have been translated as temporal participles.

[10:9]  ⁵ sn Went up on the roof. Most of the roofs in the NT were flat roofs made of pounded dirt, sometimes mixed with lime or stones, supported by heavy wooden beams. They generally had an easy means of access, either a sturdy wooden ladder or stone stairway, sometimes on the outside of the house.

[21:33]  ⁵ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 31.

[21:33]  ⁶ tn Grk “seized.”

[21:33]  ⁷ tn The two chains would be something like handcuffs (BDAG 48 s.v. ἅλυσις and compare Acts 28:20).

[21:33]  ⁸ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in the translation, and καί (kai) has been replaced with a semicolon. “Then” has been supplied after “he” to clarify the logical sequence.

[21:33]  ⁹ tn Grk “and what it is”; this has been simplified to “what.”

[22:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “It happened that as.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[22:6]  ⁸ tn Grk “going and nearing Damascus.”

[22:6]  ⁹ tn BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 3.b has “φῶς a very bright light Ac 22:6.”

[22:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “from the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

[22:6]  ¹¹ tn Or “shone.”