Acts 4:24

4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ¹  and said, “Master of all, ²  you who made the heaven, the earth, ³  the sea, and everything that is in them,

Acts 24:21

24:21 other than ⁴  this one thing ⁵  I shouted out while I stood before ⁶  them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’” ⁷ 

Acts 27:28

27:28 They took soundings ⁸  and found the water was twenty fathoms ⁹  deep; when they had sailed a little farther ¹⁰  they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms ¹¹  deep.

Acts 27:35

27:35 After he said this, Paul ¹²  took bread ¹³  and gave thanks to God in front of them all, ¹⁴  broke ¹⁵  it, and began to eat.

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¹ sn With one mind. Compare Acts 1:14.

² tn Or “Lord of all.”

sn The use of the title Master of all (δεσπότης, despoths) emphasizes that there is a sovereign God who is directing what is taking place.

³ tn Grk “and the earth, and the sea,” but καί (kai) has not been translated before “the earth” and “the sea” since contemporary English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

⁴ tn BDAG 433 s.v. ἤ 2.c has “οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἤ nothing else than…Ac 17:21. τί…ἤ what other…than…24:21.”

⁵ tn Grk “one utterance.”

⁶ tn Cf. BDAG 327 s.v. ἐν 1.e, which has “before, in the presence of, etc.”

⁷ sn The resurrection of the dead. Paul’s point was, what crime was there in holding this religious belief?

⁸ tn Grk “Heaving the lead, they found.” The participle βολίσαντες (bolisante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. See also BDAG 180 s.v. βολίζω. Although the term is used twice in this verse (and thus is technically not a NT hapax legomenon), it occurs nowhere else in the NT.

⁹ sn A fathom is about 6 feet or just under 2 meters (originally the length of a man’s outstretched arms). This was a nautical technical term for measuring the depth of water. Here it was about 120 ft (36 m).

¹⁰ tn L&N 15.12, “βραχὺ δὲ διαστήσαντες ‘when they had gone a little farther’ Ac 27:28.”

¹¹ sn Here the depth was about 90 ft (27 m).

¹² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Grk “taking bread, gave thanks.” The participle λαβών (labwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

¹⁴ tn Or “before them all,” but here this could be misunderstood to indicate a temporal sequence.

¹⁵ tn Grk “and breaking it, he began.” The participle κλάσας (klasas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.