Luke 9:4

9:4 Whatever ¹  house you enter, stay there ²  until you leave the area. ³ 

Matthew 10:11

10:11 Whenever ⁴  you enter a town or village, ⁵  find out who is worthy there ⁶  and stay with them ⁷  until you leave.

Mark 6:10

6:10 He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there ⁸  until you leave the area.

Acts 16:15

16:15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, ⁹  “If ¹⁰  you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, ¹¹  come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded ¹²  us.

Acts 16:34

16:34 The jailer ¹³  brought them into his house and set food ¹⁴  before them, and he rejoiced greatly ¹⁵  that he had come to believe ¹⁶  in God, together with his entire household. ¹⁷ 

Acts 16:40

16:40 When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then ¹⁸  departed.

[9:4]  ¹ tn Grk “And whatever.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:4]  ² sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

[9:4]  ³ tn Grk “and depart from there.” The literal wording could be easily misunderstood; the meaning is that the disciples were not to move from house to house in the same town or locality, but remain at the same house as long as they were in that place.

[10:11]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “Into whatever town or village you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every town or village they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a town or village.”

[10:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “in it” (referring to the city or village).

[10:11]  ⁷ tn Grk “there.” This was translated as “with them” to avoid redundancy in English and to clarify where the disciples were to stay.

[6:10]  ⁸ sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

[16:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “urged us, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[16:15]  ¹⁰ tn This is a first class condition in Greek, with the statement presented as real or true for the sake of the argument.

[16:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “faithful to the Lord.” BDAG 821 s.v. πίστος 2 states concerning this verse, “Of one who confesses the Christian faith believing or a believer in the Lord, in Christ, in God πιστ. τῷ κυρίῳ Ac 16:15.” L&N 11.17 has “one who is included among the faithful followers of Christ – ‘believer, Christian, follower.’”

[16:15]  ¹² tn Although BDAG 759 s.v. παραβιάζομαι has “urge strongly, prevail upon,” in contemporary English “persuade” is a more frequently used synonym for “prevail upon.”

[16:34]  ¹³ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the jailer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:34]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “placed [food] on the table” (a figurative expression). Since the actual word for food is not specified, it would also be possible to translate “set a meal before them,” but since this is taking place in the middle of the night, the preparations necessary for a full meal would probably not have been made. More likely Paul and Silas were given whatever was on hand that needed little or no preparation.

[16:34]  ¹⁵ tn Or “he was overjoyed.”

[16:34]  ¹⁶ tn The translation “come to believe” reflects more of the resultative nuance of the perfect tense here.

[16:34]  ¹⁷ tn The phrase “together with his entire household” is placed at the end of the English sentence so that it refers to both the rejoicing and the belief. A formal equivalence translation would have “and he rejoiced greatly with his entire household that he had come to believe in God,” but the reference to the entire household being baptized in v. 33 presumes that all in the household believed.

[16:40]  ¹⁸ tn “Then” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to clarify the logical sequence in the translation.