Acts 8:34

8:34 Then the eunuch said ¹  to Philip, “Please tell me, ²  who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?” ³ 

Acts 15:14

15:14 Simeon ⁴  has explained ⁵  how God first concerned himself ⁶  to select ⁷  from among the Gentiles ⁸  a people for his name.

Acts 25:4

25:4 Then Festus ⁹  replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, ¹⁰  and he himself intended to go there ¹¹  shortly.

Acts 28:16

28:16 When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live ¹²  by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

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¹ tn Grk “answered and said.” The redundant participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqei") has not been translated.

² tn Grk “I beg you,” “I ask you.”

³ sn About himself, or about someone else? It is likely in 1st century Judaism this would have been understood as either Israel or Isaiah.

⁴ sn Simeon is a form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name. James uses Peter’s “Jewish” name here.

⁵ tn Or “reported,” “described.”

⁶ tn BDAG 378 s.v. ἐπισκέπτομαι 3 translates this phrase in Acts 15:14, “God concerned himself about winning a people fr. among the nations.”

⁷ tn Grk “to take,” but in the sense of selecting or choosing (accompanied by the preposition ἐκ [ek] plus a genitive specifying the group selected from) see Heb 5:1; also BDAG 584 s.v. λαμβάνω 6.

⁸ sn In the Greek text the expression “from among the Gentiles” is in emphatic position.

⁹ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

¹⁰ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

¹¹ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

¹² tn Or “to stay.”

sn Allowed to live by himself. Paul continued to have a generous prison arrangement (cf. Acts 27:3).