Acts 7:18

7:18 until another king who did not know about ¹  Joseph ruled ²  over Egypt. ³ 

Acts 8:2

8:2 Some ⁴  devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation ⁵  over him. ⁶ 

Acts 8:17

8:17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, ⁷  and they received the Holy Spirit. ⁸ 

Acts 13:51

13:51 So after they shook ⁹  the dust off their feet ¹⁰  in protest against them, they went to Iconium. ¹¹ 

[7:18]  ¹ tn Or simply “did not know.” However, in this context the point is that the new king knew nothing about Joseph, not whether he had known him personally (which is the way “did not know Joseph” could be understood).

[7:18]  ² tn Grk “arose,” but in this context it clearly refers to a king assuming power.

[7:18]  ³ sn A quotation from Exod 1:8.

[8:2]  ⁴ tn “Some” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[8:2]  ⁵ sn Made loud lamentation. For someone who was stoned to death, lamentation was normally not allowed (m. Sanhedrin 6:6). The remark points to an unjust death.

[8:2]  ⁶ tn Or “mourned greatly for him.”

[8:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the Samaritans) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:17]  ⁸ sn They received the Holy Spirit. It is likely this special distribution of the Spirit took place because a key ethnic boundary was being crossed. Here are some of “those far off” of Acts 2:38-40.

[13:51]  ¹⁰ tn The participle ἐκτιναξάμενοι (ektinaxamenoi) is taken temporally. It could also be translated as a participle of attendant circumstance (“So they shook…and went”).

[13:51]  ¹¹ sn Shaking the dust off their feet was a symbolic gesture commanded by Jesus to his disciples, Matt 10:14; Mark 6:11; Luke 9:5. It shows a group of people as culpable before God.

[13:51]  ¹² sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 90 mi (145 km) east southeast of Pisidian Antioch. It was the easternmost city of Phrygia.