Acts 8:32

8:32 Now the passage of scripture the man ¹  was reading was this:

“He was led like a sheep to slaughter,

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he did ²  not open his mouth.

Acts 25:23

Paul Before King Agrippa and Bernice

25:23 So the next day Agrippa ³  and Bernice came with great pomp ⁴  and entered the audience hall, ⁵  along with the senior military officers ⁶  and the prominent men of the city. When Festus ⁷  gave the order, ⁸  Paul was brought in.

[8:32]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:32]  ² tn Grk “does.” The present tense here was translated as a past tense to maintain consistency with the first line of the quotation (“he was led like a sheep to slaughter”), which has an aorist passive verb normally translated as a past tense in English.

[25:23]  ³ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

[25:23]  ⁴ tn Or “great pageantry” (BDAG 1049 s.v. φαντασία; the term is a NT hapax legomenon).

[25:23]  ⁵ tn Or “auditorium.” “Auditorium” may suggest to the modern English reader a theater where performances are held. Here it is the large hall where a king or governor would hold audiences. Paul once spoke of himself as a “spectacle” to the world (1 Cor 4:8-13).

[25:23]  ⁶ tn Grk “the chiliarchs” (officers in command of a thousand soldiers). In Greek the term χιλίαρχος (ciliarco") literally described the “commander of a thousand,” but it was used as the standard translation for the Latin tribunus militum or tribunus militare, the military tribune who commanded a cohort of 600 men.

[25:23]  ⁷ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

[25:23]  ⁸ tn Grk “and Festus ordering, Paul was brought in.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in the translation, and καί (kai) has not been translated. The participle κελεύσαντος (keleusanto") has been taken temporally.