Acts 9:4

9:4 He ¹  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ²  why are you persecuting me?” ³ 

Acts 2:6

2:6 When this sound ⁴  occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, ⁵  because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Acts 8:30

8:30 So Philip ran up ⁶  to it ⁷  and heard the man ⁸  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ⁹  asked him, ¹⁰  “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Acts 24:24

Paul Speaks Repeatedly to Felix

24:24 Some days later, when Felix ¹¹  arrived with his wife Drusilla, ¹²  who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak ¹³  about faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ 

[9:4]  ¹ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[9:4]  ² tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

[9:4]  ³ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

[2:6]  ⁴ tn Or “this noise.”

[2:6]  ⁵ tn Or “was bewildered.”

[8:30]  ⁷ tn The participle προσδραμών (prosdramwn) is regarded as attendant circumstance.

[8:30]  ⁸ tn The words “to it” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[8:30]  ⁹ tn Grk “heard him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:30]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[8:30]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he said”; but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.”

[24:24]  ¹⁰ sn See the note on Antonius Felix in 23:24.

[24:24]  ¹¹ sn It is possible that Drusilla, being Jewish, was the source of Felix’s knowledge about the new movement called Christianity. The youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I and sister of Agrippa II, she would have been close to 20 years old at the time. She had married the king of a small region in Syria but divorced him at the age of 16 to marry Felix. This was her second marriage and Felix’s third (Josephus, Ant. 19.9.1 [19.354], 20.7.2 [20.141-144]). As a member of Herod’s family, she probably knew about the Way.

[24:24]  ¹² tn The word “speak” is implied; BDAG 32 s.v. ἀκούω 1.c has “ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ περὶ τῆς…πίστεως he heard him speak about faith Ac 24:24.”

[24:24]  ¹³ tn Or “Messiah Jesus”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”