Acts 1:24

1:24 Then they prayed,¹ “Lord, you know the hearts of all. Show us which one of these two you have chosen

Acts 5:7

5:7 After an interval of about three hours,² his wife came in, but she did not know³ what had happened.

Acts 17:20

17:20 For you are bringing some surprising things⁴ to our ears, so we want to know what they⁵ mean.”

Acts 20:25

20:25 “And now⁶ I know that none⁷ of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom⁸ will see me⁹ again.

Acts 20:29

20:29 I know that after I am gone¹⁰ fierce wolves¹¹ will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Acts 22:19

22:19 I replied,¹² ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues¹³ who believed in you.

Acts 23:28

23:28 Since I wanted to know¹⁴ what charge they were accusing him of,¹⁵ I brought him down to their council.¹⁶

¹tn 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.

²tn Grk “It happened that after an interval of about three hours.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

³tn Grk “came in, not knowing.” The participle has been translated with concessive or adversative force: “although she did not know.” In English, the adversative conjunction (“but”) conveys this nuance more smoothly.

⁴tn BDAG 684 s.v. ξενίζω 2 translates the substantival participle ξενίζοντα (xenizonta) as “astonishing things Ac 17:20.”

⁵tn Grk “these things”; but since the referent (“surprising things”) is so close, the repetition of “these things” sounds redundant in English, so the pronoun “they” was substituted in the translation.

⁶tn Grk “And now, behold.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.

⁷tn Grk “all of you…will not see.” Greek handles its negation somewhat differently from English, and the translation follows English grammatical conventions.

⁸sn Note how Paul’s usage of the expression proclaiming the kingdom is associated with (and intertwined with) his testifying to the good news of God’s grace in v. 24. For Paul the two concepts were interrelated.

⁹tn Grk “will see my face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).

¹⁰tn Grk “after my departure.”

¹¹tn That is, people like fierce wolves. See BDAG 167-68 s.v. βαρύς 4 on the term translated “fierce.” The battle that will follow would be a savage one.

¹²tn Grk “And I 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, in καγώ [kagw]) has not been translated here.

¹³tn For the distributive sense of the expression κατὰ τὰς συναγωγάς (kata ta" sunagwga") BDAG 512 s.v. κατά B.1.d has “of places viewed serially, distributive use w. acc.…κατ᾿ οἶκαν from house to house…Ac 2:46b; 5:42…Likew. the pl.…κ. τὰς συναγωγάς 22:19.” See also L&N 37.114.

sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

¹⁴tn Or “determine.”

¹⁵tn Grk “to know the charge on account of which they were accusing him.” This has been simplified to eliminate the prepositional phrase and relative pronoun δι᾿ ἣν (di’ }hn) similar to L&N 27.8 which has “‘I wanted to find out what they were accusing him of, so I took him down to their Council’ Ac 23:28.”

¹⁶tn Grk “their Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).