Acts 3:11

Peter Addresses the Crowd

3:11 While the man ¹  was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway ²  called Solomon’s Portico. ³ 

Acts 8:30

8:30 So Philip ran up ⁴  to it ⁵  and heard the man ⁶  reading Isaiah the prophet. He ⁷  asked him, ⁸  “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Acts 21:32

21:32 He ⁹  immediately took ¹⁰  soldiers and centurions ¹¹  and ran down to the crowd. ¹²  When they saw ¹³  the commanding officer ¹⁴  and the soldiers, they stopped beating ¹⁵  Paul.

Acts 27:16

27:16 As we ran under the lee of ¹⁶  a small island called Cauda, ¹⁷  we were able with difficulty to get the ship’s boat ¹⁸  under control.

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¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Or “portico,” “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.” The translation “covered walkway” (a descriptive translation) was used here because the architectural term “portico” or “colonnade” is less familiar. However, the more technical term “portico” was retained in the actual name that follows.

³ sn Solomon’s Portico was a covered walkway formed by rows of columns supporting a roof and open on the inner side facing the center of the temple complex. It was located on the east side of the temple (Josephus, Ant. 15.11.3-5 [15.391-420], 20.9.7 [20.221]) and was a place of commerce and conversation.

⁴ tn The participle προσδραμών (prosdramwn) is regarded as attendant circumstance.

⁵ tn The words “to it” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁶ tn Grk “heard him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Grk “he said”; but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.”

⁹ tn Grk “who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, the relative pronoun (“who”) was translated as a pronoun (“he”) and a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

¹⁰ tn Grk “taking…ran down.” The participle κατέδραμεν (katedramen) 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 “to them”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Grk “seeing.” The participle ἰδόντες (idonte") has been taken temporally.

¹⁴ tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 31.

¹⁵ sn The mob stopped beating Paul because they feared the Romans would arrest them for disturbing the peace and for mob violence. They would let the Roman officials take care of the matter from this point on.

¹⁶ tn BDAG 1042 s.v. ὑποτρέχω states, “run or sail under the lee of, nautical t.t.…Ac 27:16.” The participle ὑποδραμόντες (Jupodramonte") has been taken temporally (“as we ran under the lee of”). While this could also be translated as a participle of means (“by running…”) this might suggest the ship was still under a greater degree of control by its crew than it probably was.

¹⁷ sn Cauda. This island was located south of Crete, about 23 mi (36 km) from where they began. There are various ways to spell the island’s name (e.g., Clauda, BDAG 546 s.v. Κλαῦδα).

¹⁸ sn The ship’s boat was a small rowboat, normally towed behind a ship in good weather rather than stowed on board. It was used for landings, to maneuver the ship for tacking, and to lay anchors (not a lifeboat in the modern sense, although it could have served as a means of escape for some of the sailors; see v. 30). See L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World, 248f.