Acts 8:20

8:20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, ¹  because you thought you could acquire ²  God’s gift with money!

Acts 21:33

21:33 Then the commanding officer ³  came up and arrested ⁴  him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; ⁵  he ⁶  then asked who he was and what ⁷  he had done.

Acts 10:17

10:17 Now while Peter was puzzling over ⁸  what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon’s house was ⁹  and approached ¹⁰  the gate.

Acts 20:16

20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus ¹¹  so as not to spend time ¹²  in the province of Asia, ¹³  for he was hurrying ¹⁴  to arrive in Jerusalem, ¹⁵  if possible, ¹⁶  by the day of Pentecost.

[8:20]  ¹ tn Grk “May your silver together with you be sent into destruction.” This is a strong curse. The gifts of God are sovereignly bestowed and cannot be purchased.

[8:20]  ² tn Or “obtain.”

[21:33]  ³ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 31.

[21:33]  ⁴ tn Grk “seized.”

[21:33]  ⁵ tn The two chains would be something like handcuffs (BDAG 48 s.v. ἅλυσις and compare Acts 28:20).

[21:33]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Grk “and what it is”; this has been simplified to “what.”

[10:17]  ⁵ tn Or “was greatly confused over.” The term means to be perplexed or at a loss (BDAG 235 s.v. διαπορέω).

[10:17]  ⁶ tn Grk “having learned.” The participle διερωτήσαντες (dierwthsante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[10:17]  ⁷ tn BDAG 418 s.v. ἐφίστημι 1 has “ἐπί τι approach or stand by someth. (Sir 41:24) Ac 10:17.”

[20:16]  ⁷ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[20:16]  ⁸ tn Grk “so that he might not have to spend time.” L&N 67.79 has “ὅπως μὴ γένηται αὐτῷ χρονοτριβῆσαι ἐν τῇ ᾿Ασίᾳ ‘so as not to spend any time in the province of Asia’ Ac 20:16.”

[20:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.

[20:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “was eager.”

[20:16]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[20:16]  ¹² tn Grk “if it could be to him” (an idiom).