Discovery BoxActs 10:8 
Context10:8 and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Acts 22:2
Context22:2 (When they heard 1 that he was addressing 2 them in Aramaic, 3 they became even 4 quieter.) 5 Then 6 Paul said,
Acts 25:18
Context25:18 When his accusers stood up, they did not charge 7 him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. 8
Acts 26:9
Context26:9 Of course, 9 I myself was convinced 10 that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
Acts 26:30
Context26:30 So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,
Acts 27:31
Context27:31 Paul said to the centurion 11 and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you 12 cannot be saved.”
Acts 28:9
Context28:9 After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick 13 also came and were healed. 14
1 tn ἀκούσαντες (akousante") has been taken temporally.
2 tn Or “spoke out to.” L&N 33.27 has “to address an audience, with possible emphasis upon loudness – ‘to address, to speak out to.’ πολλῆς δέ σιγῆς γενομένης προσεφώνησεν τῇ ᾿Εβραίδι διαλέκτῳ ‘when they were quiet, he addressed them in Hebrew’ Ac 21:40.”
3 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See the note on “Aramaic” in 21:40.
4 tn BDAG 613-14 s.v. μᾶλλον 1 “Abs. μ. can mean to a greater degree (than before), even more, now more than ever Lk 5:15; Jn 5:18; 19:8; Ac 5:14; 22:2; 2 Cor 7:7.”
5 tn BDAG 440 s.v. ἡσυχία 2 has “παρέχειν ἡσυχίαν quiet down, give a hearing…Ac 22:2.”
sn This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author.
6 tn Grk “and.” Since this represents a continuation of the speech begun in v. 1, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the logical sequence.
7 tn Grk “they brought no charge of any of the evil deeds.” BDAG 31 s.v. αἰτία 3.b has “αἰτίαν φέρειν…bring an accusation Ac 25:18.” Since κατήγοροι (kathgoroi, “accusers”) in the previous clause is somewhat redundant with this, “charge” was used instead.
8 tn Or “I was expecting.”
9 tn BDAG 737 s.v. οὖν 3 states, “It has been proposed that some traces of older Gk. usage in which οὖν is emphatic, = certainly, really, to be sure etc. (s. L-S-J-M s.v. 1) remain in the pap…and in the NT…indeed, of course Ac 26:9.”
10 tn Grk “I thought to myself.” BDAG 255 s.v. δοκέω 2.a has “ἔδοξα ἐμαυτῷ δεῖν πρᾶξαι = Lat. mihi videbar I was convinced that it was necessary to do Ac 26:9.”
11 sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.
12 sn The pronoun you is plural in Greek.
13 tn BDAG 142 s.v. ἀσθένεια 1 states, “ἔχειν ἀ. be ill Ac 28:9.”
14 sn Many…also came and were healed. Again, here is irony. Paul, though imprisoned, “frees” others of their diseases.
