Acts 5:18

5:18 They ¹  laid hands on ²  the apostles and put them in a public jail.

Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts ³  and proclaim ⁴  to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5:33

5:33 Now when they heard this, they became furious ⁵  and wanted to execute them. ⁶ 

Acts 5:40

5:40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. ⁷  Then ⁸  they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

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¹ tn Grk “jealousy, and they.” In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but a new sentence has been started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “they arrested.”

³ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

⁴ tn Or “speak.”

⁵ sn The only other use of this verb for anger (furious) is Acts 7:54 after Stephen’s speech.

⁶ sn Wanted to execute them. The charge would surely be capital insubordination (Exod 22:28).

⁷ sn Had them beaten. The punishment was the “forty lashes minus one,” see also Acts 22:19; 2 Cor 11:24; Mark 13:9. The apostles had disobeyed the religious authorities and took their punishment for their “disobedience” (Deut 25:2-3; m. Makkot 3:10-14). In Acts 4:18 they were warned. Now they are beaten. The hostility is rising as the narrative unfolds.

⁸ tn The word “Then” is supplied as the beginning of a new sentence in the translation. The construction in Greek has so many clauses (most of them made up of participles) that a continuous English sentence would be very awkward.