Acts 7:57-58

7:57 But they covered their ears, ¹  shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent. 7:58 When ²  they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, ³  and the witnesses laid their cloaks ⁴  at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 16:19

16:19 But when her owners ⁵  saw their hope of profit ⁶  was gone, they seized ⁷  Paul and Silas and dragged ⁸  them into the marketplace before the authorities.

Luke 4:29

4:29 They got up, forced ⁹  him out of the town, ¹⁰  and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that ¹¹  they could throw him down the cliff. ¹² 

Luke 4:2

4:2 where for forty days he endured temptations ¹³  from the devil. He ¹⁴  ate nothing ¹⁵  during those days, and when they were completed, ¹⁶  he was famished.

Colossians 1:26

1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

[7:57]  ¹ sn They covered their ears to avoid hearing what they considered to be blasphemy.

[7:58]  ² tn Grk “And when.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here; a new sentence is begun instead.

[7:58]  ³ sn They began to stone him. The irony of the scene is that the people do exactly what the speech complains about in v. 52.

[7:58]  ⁴ tn Or “outer garments.”

[16:19]  ⁵ tn Or “masters.”

[16:19]  ⁶ tn On this use of ἐργασία (ergasia), see BDAG 390 s.v. 4. It is often the case that destructive practices and commerce are closely tied together.

[16:19]  ⁷ tn Grk “was gone, seizing.” The participle ἐπιλαβόμενοι (epilabomenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[16:19]  ⁸ tn On the term ἕλκω ({elkw) see BDAG 318 s.v. 1.

[4:29]  ⁹ tn Grk “cast.”

[4:29]  ¹⁰ tn Or “city.”

[4:29]  ¹¹ tn The Greek conjunction ὥστε (Jwste) here indicates their purpose.

[4:29]  ¹² sn The attempt to throw him down the cliff looks like “lynch law,” but it may really be an indication that Jesus was regarded as a false prophet who was worthy of death (Deut 13:5). Such a sentence meant being thrown into a pit and then stoned.

[4:2]  ¹³ tn Grk “in the desert, for forty days being tempted.” The participle πειραζόμενος (peirazomeno") has been translated as an adverbial clause in English to avoid a run-on sentence with a second “and.” Here the present participle suggests a period of forty days of testing. Three samples of the end of the testing are given in the following verses.

[4:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[4:2]  ¹⁵ sn The reference to Jesus eating nothing could well be an idiom meaning that he ate only what the desert provided; see Exod 34:28. A desert fast simply meant eating only what one could obtain in the desert. The parallel in Matt 4:2 speaks only of Jesus fasting.

[4:2]  ¹⁶ tn The Greek word here is συντελεσθείσων (suntelesqeiswn) from the verb συντελέω (suntelew).