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Acts 16:2

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16:2 The brothers in Lystra 1  and Iconium 2  spoke well 3  of him. 4 

1 sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium.

2 sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 110 mi (175 km) east of Pisidian Antioch.

3 tn For this sense of μαρτυρέω (marturew), see BDAG 618 s.v. 2.b.

4 tn Grk “who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.” Because of the awkwardness in English of having two relative clauses follow one another (“who was a believer…who was well spoken of”) and the awkwardness of the passive verb (“was well spoken of”), the relative pronoun at the beginning of 16:2 (“who”) has been translated as a pronoun (“him”) and the construction converted from passive to active at the same time a new sentence was started in the translation.



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