Acts 2:46-47

2:46 Every day ¹  they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, ²  breaking bread from ³  house to house, sharing their food with glad ⁴  and humble hearts, ⁵  2:47 praising God and having the good will ⁶  of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day ⁷  those who were being saved.

Acts 5:42

5:42 And every day both in the temple courts ⁸  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ⁹  that Jesus was the Christ. ¹⁰ 

Acts 17:17

17:17 So he was addressing ¹¹  the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles ¹²  in the synagogue, ¹³  and in the marketplace every day ¹⁴  those who happened to be there.

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¹ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

² tn Grk “in the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

³ tn Here κατά (kata) is used as a distributive (BDAG 512 s.v. B.1.d).

⁴ sn The term glad (Grk “gladness”) often refers to joy brought about by God’s saving acts (Luke 1:14, 44; also the related verb in 1:47; 10:21).

⁵ tn Grk “with gladness and humbleness of hearts.” It is best to understand καρδίας (kardias) as an attributed genitive, with the two nouns it modifies actually listing attributes of the genitive noun which is related to them.

⁶ tn Or “the favor.”

⁷ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

⁸ tn Grk “temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper and has been translated accordingly.

⁹ tn Grk “teaching and evangelizing.” They were still obeying God, not men (see 4:18-20; 5:29).

¹⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.

¹¹ tn Although the word διελέξατο (dielexato; from διαλέγομαι, dialegomai) is frequently translated “reasoned,” “disputed,” or “argued,” this sense comes from its classical meaning where it was used of philosophical disputation, including the Socratic method of questions and answers. However, there does not seem to be contextual evidence for this kind of debate in Acts 17:17. As G. Schrenk (TDNT 2:94-95) points out, “What is at issue is the address which any qualified member of a synagogue might give.” Other examples of this may be found in the NT in Matt 4:23 and Mark 1:21.

¹² tn Or “and the devout,” but this is practically a technical term for the category called God-fearers, Gentiles who worshiped the God of Israel and in many cases kept the Mosaic law, but did not take the final step of circumcision necessary to become a proselyte to Judaism. See further K. G. Kuhn, TDNT 6:732-34, 743-44, and the note on the phrase “God-fearing Greeks” in 17:4.

¹³ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

¹⁴ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase in this verse.