Acts 8:40

8:40 Philip, however, found himself ¹  at Azotus, ²  and as he passed through the area, ³  he proclaimed the good news ⁴  to all the towns ⁵  until he came to Caesarea. ⁶ 

Acts 26:11

26:11 I punished ⁷  them often in all the synagogues ⁸  and tried to force ⁹  them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged ¹⁰  at them, I went to persecute ¹¹  them even in foreign cities.

[8:40]  ¹ tn Or “appeared.”

[8:40]  ² sn Azotus was a city on the coast of southern Palestine, known as Ashdod in OT times.

[8:40]  ³ tn The words “the area” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[8:40]  ⁴ tn Or “he preached the gospel.”

[8:40]  ⁵ tn Or “cities.”

[8:40]  ⁶ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

[26:11]  ⁷ tn Grk “and punishing…I tried.” The participle τιμωρῶν (timwrwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[26:11]  ⁸ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

[26:11]  ⁹ tn The imperfect verb ἠνάγκαζον (hnankazon) has been translated as a conative imperfect (so BDAG 60 s.v. ἀναγκάζω 1, which has “ἠνάγκαζον βλασφημεῖν I tried to force them to blaspheme Ac 26:11”).

[26:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “was so insanely angry with them.” BDAG 322 s.v. ἐμμαίνομαι states, “to be filled with such anger that one appears to be mad, be enraged…περισσῶς ἐμμαινόμενος αὐτοῖς being furiously enraged at them Ac 26:11”; L&N 88.182 s.v. ἐμμαίνομαι, “to be so furiously angry with someone as to be almost out of one’s mind – ‘to be enraged, to be infuriated, to be insanely angry’ …‘I was so infuriated with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them’ Ac 26:11.”

[26:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “I pursued them even as far as foreign cities.”