Acts 4:29

4:29 And now, Lord, pay attention to 1  their threats, and grant 2  to your servants 3  to speak your message 4  with great courage, 5 

Acts 8:11

8:11 And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

Acts 11:22

11:22 A report 6  about them came to the attention 7  of the church in Jerusalem, 8  and they sent Barnabas 9  to Antioch. 10 

1 tn Or “Lord, take notice of.”

2 sn Grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage. The request is not for a stop to persecution or revenge on the opponents, but for boldness (great courage) to carry out the mission of proclaiming the message of what God is doing through Jesus.

3 tn Grk “slaves.” See the note on the word “servants” in 2:18.

4 tn Grk “word.”

5 tn Or “with all boldness.”

6 tn Grk “Word.”

7 tn Grk “was heard in the ears,” an idiom. L&N 24.67 states that the idiom means “to hear in secret” (which it certainly does in Matt 10:27), but secrecy does not seem to be part of the context here, and there is no particular reason to suggest the report was made in secret.

8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

9 tc ‡ Most mss read the infinitive “to travel” after “Barnabas.” διελθεῖν (dielqein) is found before ἕως (Jews) in D E Ψ 33 Ï and some versional mss. It is lacking in Ì74 א A B 81 1739 pc and some versional mss. Although the infinitive with ἕως fits Lukan style, it has the appearance of a scribal clarification. The infinitive has the earmarks of a Western expansion on the text and thus is unlikely to be original. NA27 has the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

10 sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19. Again the Jerusalem church exercised an oversight role.