Acts 4:34

4:34 For there was no one needy¹ among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling² them³ and bringing the proceeds from the sales

Acts 5:16

5:16 A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem⁴ also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits.⁵ They⁶ were all⁷ being healed.

Acts 25:7

25:7 When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him,⁸ bringing many serious⁹ charges that they were not able to prove.¹⁰

¹tn Or “poor.”

²tn Grk “houses, selling them were bringing.” The participle πωλοῦντες (pwlounte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

³tn The word “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

⁴map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.

⁶tn Literally a relative pronoun, “who.” In English, however, a relative clause (“bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits, who were all being healed”) could be understood to refer only to the second group (meaning only those troubled by unclean spirits were being healed) or even that the unclean spirits were being healed. To avoid this ambiguity the pronoun “they” was used to begin a new English sentence.

⁷sn They were all being healed. Note how the healings that the apostles provided were comprehensive in their consistency.

⁸tn BDAG 801 s.v. περιίστημι 1.a has “περιέστησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι the Judeans stood around him 25:7.”

⁹tn Grk “many and serious.” The term βαρύς (barus) refers to weighty or serious charges (BDAG 167 s.v. 1).

¹⁰tn The term ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeiknumi) in a legal context refers to legal proof (4 Macc 1:8; BDAG 108 s.v. 3).