5:5 When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped 3 all who heard about it.
10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on 4 all those who heard the message. 5
1 tn Grk “And praying, they said.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
2 tn Or “proclaimed.”
sn All the prophets…have spoken about and announced. What Peter preaches is rooted in basic biblical and Jewish hope as expressed in the OT scriptures.
3 tn Or “fear came on,” “fear seized”; Grk “fear happened to.”
4 tn Or “came down on.” God now acted to confirm the point of Peter’s speech.
5 tn Or “word.”
6 tn Or perhaps, “desecrators of temples.”
7 sn Nor blasphemers of our goddess. There was no formal crime with which Paul could be charged. He had the right to his religion as long as he did not act physically against the temple. Since no overt act had taken place, the official wanted the community to maintain the status quo on these religious matters. The remarks suggest Paul was innocent of any civil crime.
8 tn Grk “these [men] themselves.”
9 tn Or “unrighteous act.”
10 tn The words “me guilty of” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. L&N 88.23 has “αὐτοὶ οὗτοι εἰπάτωσαν τί εὗρον ἀδίκημα στάντος μου ‘let these men themselves tell what unrighteous act they found me guilty of’ Ac 24:20.”
11 tn Grk “the Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
12 sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.
13 sn The pronoun you is plural in Greek.