Discovery BoxActs 1:14 
Context1:14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. 1
Acts 8:6
Context8:6 The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, 2 as they heard and saw the miraculous signs 3 he was performing.
Acts 12:15
Context12:15 But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” 4 But she kept insisting that it was Peter, 5 and they kept saying, 6 “It is his angel!” 7
Acts 26:24
Context26:24 As Paul 8 was saying these things in his defense, Festus 9 exclaimed loudly, “You have lost your mind, 10 Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
1 sn Jesus’ brothers are mentioned in Matt 13:55 and John 7:3.
2 tn Grk “to what was being said by Philip,” a passive construction that has been changed to active voice in the translation.
3 tn Here the following context indicates the miraculous nature of the signs mentioned. This term appears 13 times in Acts, but only twice more after Acts 8:13 (i.e., 14:3; 15:12).
4 sn “You’ve lost your mind!” Such a response to the miraculous is not unusual in Luke-Acts. See Luke 24:11; Acts 26:25. The term μαίνομαι (mainomai) can have the idea of being “raving mad” or “totally irrational” (BDAG 610 s.v.). It is a strong expression.
5 tn Grk “she kept insisting that the situation was thus” (cf. BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.a). Most translations supply a less awkward English phrase like “it was so”; the force of her insistence, however, is that “it was Peter,” which was the point under dispute.
6 tn The two imperfect tense verbs, διϊσχυρίζετο (diiscurizeto) and ἔλεγον (elegon), are both taken iteratively. The picture is thus virtually a shouting match between Rhoda and the rest of the believers.
7 sn The assumption made by those inside, “It is his angel,” seems to allude to the idea of an attending angel (cf. Gen 48:16 LXX; Matt 18:10; Test. Jacob 1:10).
8 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
10 tn On the term translated “lost your mind” see BDAG 610 s.v. μαίνομαι, which has “you’re out of your mind, you’re raving, said to one whose enthusiasm seems to have outrun better judgment 26:24.”
sn The expression “You have lost your mind” would be said to someone who speaks incredible things, in the opinion of the hearer. Paul’s mention of the resurrection (v. 23) was probably what prompted Festus to say this.
