Discovery Box| (0.6291952972973) | (Joh 8:13) |
3 sn Compare the charge You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true! to Jesus’ own statement about his testimony in 5:31. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Joh 8:15) |
2 tn Or “judge according to external things”; Grk “according to the flesh.” These translations are given by BDAG 916 s.v. σάρξ 5. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Joh 19:39) |
5 sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 5:3) |
1 sn This is a good example of the Greek verb fill (πληρόω, plhrow) meaning “to exercise control over someone’s thought and action” (cf. Eph 5:18). |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 5:25) |
2 sn Obeying God (see v. 29), the apostles were teaching again (4:18-20; 5:20). They did so despite the risk. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 7:42) |
2 sn To worship the hosts of heaven. Their action violated Deut 4:19; 17:2-5. See Ps 106:36-43. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 7:54) |
1 tn This verb, which also occurs in Acts 5:33, means “cut to the quick” or “deeply infuriated” (BDAG 235 s.v. διαπρίω). |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 9:31) |
1 tn Or “Therefore.” This verse is another summary text in Acts (cf. 2:41-47; 4:32-37; 5:12-16; 6:7). |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 9:32) |
3 sn Lydda was a city northwest of Jerusalem on the way to Joppa. It was about 10.5 miles (17 km) southeast of Joppa. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 9:40) |
4 sn She sat up. This event is told much like Luke 8:49-56 and Mark 5:35-43. Peter’s ministry mirrored that of Jesus. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 13:29) |
4 tn Grk “tree,” but frequently figurative for a cross. The allusion is to Deut 21:23. See Acts 5:30; 10:39. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 17:26) |
5 tn Grk “the boundaries of their habitation.” L&N 80.5 has “fixed limits of the places where they would live” for this phrase. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 17:28) |
2 sn This quotation is from Aratus (ca. 310-245 |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 18:5) |
4 tn BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “testify of, bear witness to solemnly (orig. under oath)…W. acc. and inf. foll. Ac 18:5.” |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 21:28) |
6 sn Has brought Greeks…unclean. Note how the issue is both religious and ethnic, showing a different attitude by the Jews. A Gentile was not permitted to enter the inner temple precincts (contrast Eph 2:11-22). According to Josephus (Ant. 15.11.5 [15.417]; J. W. 5.5.2 [5.193], cf. 5.5.6 [5.227]), the inner temple courts (the Court of the Women, the Court of the Sons of Israel, and the Court of the Priests) were raised slightly above the level of the Court of the Gentiles and were surrounded by a wall about 5 ft (1.5 m) high. Notices in both Greek and Latin (two of which have been discovered) warned that any Gentiles who ventured into the inner courts would be responsible for their own deaths. See also Philo, Embassy 31 (212). In m. Middot 2:3 this wall was called “soreq” and according to m. Sanhedrin 9:6 the stranger who trespassed beyond the soreq would die by the hand of God. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 22:5) |
6 tn BDAG 221 s.v. δέω 1.b has “δεδεμένον ἄγειν τινά bring someone as prisoner…Ac 9:2, 21; 22:5.” |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 22:28) |
3 tn BDAG 495-96 s.v. καί 2.b has “intensive: even…Ac 5:39; 22:28.” |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 26:6) |
1 tn BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5.a.α has “κρίνεσθαι ἐπί τινι be on trial because of a thing Ac 26:6.” |
| (0.6291952972973) | (Act 27:18) |
2 sn The desperation of the sailors in throwing the cargo overboard is reminiscent of Jonah 1:5. At this point they were only concerned with saving themselves. |
| (0.6291952972973) | (1Co 5:13) |
1 sn An allusion to Deut 17:7; 19:19; 22:21, 24; 24:7; cf. 1 Cor 5:2. |
