Discovery BoxActs 10:5 
Context10:5 Now 1 send men to Joppa 2 and summon a man named Simon, 3 who is called Peter.
Acts 10:18
Context10:18 They 4 called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, 5 was staying there as a guest.
Acts 15:37
Context15:37 Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,
Acts 16:28
Context16:28 But Paul called out loudly, 6 “Do not harm yourself, 7 for we are all here!”
Acts 28:1
Context28:1 After we had safely reached shore, 8 we learned that the island was called Malta. 9
1 tn Grk “And now.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
2 sn Joppa was a seaport on the Philistine coast, in the same location as modern Jaffa.
3 tn Grk “a certain Simon.”
4 tn Grk “and.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun by supplying the pronoun “they” as the subject of the following verb.
5 tn Grk “Simon, the one called Peter.” This qualification was necessary because the owner of the house was also named Simon (Acts 9:43).
6 tn Grk “But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying.” The dative phrase μεγάλῃ φωνῇ (megalh fwnh) has been simplified as an English adverb (“loudly”), and the participle λέγων (legwn) has not been translated since it is redundant in English.
7 sn Do not harm yourself. Again the irony is that Paul is the agent through whom the jailer is spared.
8 tn Grk “We having been brought safely through” [to land] (same verb as 27:44). The word “shore” is implied, and the slight variations in translation from 27:44 have been made to avoid redundancy in English. The participle διασωθέντες (diaswqente") has been taken temporally.
9 sn Malta is an island (known by the same name today) in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily. The ship had traveled 625 mi (1,000 km) in the storm.
map For location see JP4 A3.
