Acts 10:11

10:11 He ¹  saw heaven ²  opened ³  and an object something like a large sheet ⁴  descending, ⁵  being let down to earth ⁶  by its four corners.

Acts 17:21

17:21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time ⁷  in nothing else than telling ⁸  or listening to something new.) ⁹ 

Acts 23:17

23:17 Paul called ¹⁰  one of the centurions ¹¹  and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, ¹²  for he has something to report to him.”

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¹ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

² tn Or “the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

³ tn On the heavens “opening,” see Matt 3:16; Luke 3:21; Rev 19:11 (cf. BDAG 84 s.v. ἀνοίγω 2). This is the language of a vision or a revelatory act of God.

⁴ tn Or “a large linen cloth” (the term was used for the sail of a ship; BDAG 693 s.v. ὀθόνη).

⁵ tn Or “coming down.”

⁶ tn Or “to the ground.”

⁷ tn The imperfect verb ηὐκαίρουν (hukairoun) has been translated as a customary or habitual imperfect.

⁸ tn BDAG 406-7 s.v. εὐκαιρέω has “used to spend their time in nothing else than telling Ac 17:21.”

⁹ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. The reference to newness may be pejorative.

¹⁰ tn Grk “calling…Paul said.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹¹ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

¹² tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 10.