Acts 20:20

20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ¹  to you anything that would be helpful, ²  and from teaching you publicly ³  and from house to house,

Acts 20:31

20:31 Therefore be alert, ⁴  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ⁵  each one of you with tears.

Acts 26:1

Paul Offers His Defense

26:1 So Agrippa ⁶  said to Paul, “You have permission ⁷  to speak for yourself.” Then Paul held out his hand ⁸  and began his defense: ⁹ 

Acts 26:13

26:13 about noon along the road, Your Majesty, ¹⁰  I saw a light from heaven, ¹¹  brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around ¹²  me and those traveling with me.

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¹ tn Or “declaring.”

² tn Or “profitable.” BDAG 960 s.v. συμφέρω 2.b.α has “τὰ συμφέροντα what advances your best interests or what is good for you Ac 20:20,” but the broader meaning (s.v. 2, “to be advantageous, help, confer a benefit, be profitable/useful”) is equally possible in this context.

³ tn Or “openly.”

⁴ tn Or “be watchful.”

⁵ tn Or “admonishing.”

⁶ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

⁷ tn Grk “It is permitted for you.”

⁸ tn Or “extended his hand” (a speaker’s gesture).

⁹ tn Or “and began to speak in his own defense.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “O King.”

¹¹ tn Or “from the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).

¹² tn The word “everywhere” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning of περιλάμψαν (perilamyan). Otherwise the modern reader might think that each of the individuals were encircled by lights or halos. See also Acts 9:7; 22:6, 9.