Acts 9:38

9:38 Because Lydda ¹  was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Come to us without delay.” ² 

Acts 12:6

12:6 On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, ³  Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while ⁴  guards in front of the door were keeping watch ⁵  over the prison.

Acts 23:23

23:23 Then ⁶  he summoned ⁷  two of the centurions ⁸  and said, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea ⁹  along with seventy horsemen ¹⁰  and two hundred spearmen ¹¹  by ¹²  nine o’clock tonight, ¹³ 

[9:38]  ¹ sn Lydda was a city northwest of Jerusalem on the way to Joppa.

[9:38]  ² tn Grk “Do not delay to come to us.” It is somewhat smoother to say in English, “Come to us without delay.”

[12:6]  ³ tn Grk “was going to bring him out,” but the upcoming trial is implied. See Acts 12:4.

[12:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “two chains, and.” Logically it makes better sense to translate this as a temporal clause, although technically it is a coordinate clause in Greek.

[12:6]  ⁵ tn Or “were guarding.”

[23:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “And.” Since this represents a response to the reported ambush, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the logical sequence.

[23:23]  ⁶ tn Grk “summoning…he said.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[23:23]  ⁷ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[23:23]  ⁸ 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. This was a journey of about 65 mi (just over 100 km).

[23:23]  ⁹ tn Or “cavalrymen.”

[23:23]  ¹⁰ tn A military technical term of uncertain meaning. BDAG 217 s.v. δεξιολάβος states, “a word of uncertain mng., military t.t., acc. to Joannes Lydus…and Theophyl. Sim., Hist. 4, 1 a light-armed soldier, perh. bowman, slinger; acc. to a scholion in CMatthaei p. 342 body-guard….Spearman Goodspd., NRSV; ‘security officer’, GDKilpatrick, JTS 14, ’63, 393f.”

[23:23]  ¹¹ tn Grk “from.”

[23:23]  ¹² tn Grk “from the third hour of the night.”