Acts 7:4

7:4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God ¹  made him move ²  to this country where you now live.

Acts 15:18

15:18 known ³  from long ago. ⁴ 

Acts 21:20

21:20 When they heard this, they praised ⁵  God. Then they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews ⁶  there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers ⁷  of the law. ⁸ 

Acts 26:22

26:22 I have experienced ⁹  help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except ¹⁰  what the prophets and Moses said ¹¹  was going to happen:

[7:4]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:4]  ² tn The translation “made him move” for the verb μετοικίζω (metoikizw) is given by L&N 85.83. The verb has the idea of “resettling” someone (BDAG 643 s.v.); see v. 43, where it reappears.

[15:18]  ³ sn Who makes these things known. The remark emphasizes how God’s design of these things reaches back to the time he declared them.

[15:18]  ⁴ sn An allusion to Isa 45:21.

[21:20]  ⁵ tn Or “glorified.”

[21:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “how many thousands there are among the Jews.”

[21:20]  ⁷ tn Or “are all zealous for the law.” BDAG 427 s.v. ζηλωτής 1.a.β has “of thing…τοῦ νόμου an ardent observer of the law Ac 21:20.”

[21:20]  ⁸ sn That is, the law of Moses. These Jewish Christians had remained close to their Jewish practices after becoming believers (1 Cor 7:18-19; Acts 16:3).

[26:22]  ⁷ tn Grk “So experiencing…I stand.” The participle τυχών (tucwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[26:22]  ⁸ tn BDAG 311 s.v. ἐκτός 3.b, “functions as prep. w. gen. οὐδὲν ἐ. ὧν nothing except what (cf. 1 Ch 29:3; 2 Ch 17:19; TestNapht. 6:2) Ac 26:22.”

[26:22]  ⁹ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.