Discovery BoxActs 14:14 
Context14:14 But when the apostles 1 Barnabas and Paul heard about 2 it, they tore 3 their clothes and rushed out 4 into the crowd, shouting, 5
Acts 19:32
Context19:32 So then some were shouting one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had met together. 6
1 sn The apostles Barnabas and Paul. This is one of only two places where Luke calls Paul an apostle, and the description here is shared with Barnabas. This is a nontechnical use here, referring to a commissioned messenger.
2 tn The participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is taken temporally.
3 tn Grk “tearing their clothes they rushed out.” The participle διαρρήξαντες (diarrhxante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. This action is a Jewish response to blasphemy (m. Sanhedrin 7.5; Jdt 14:16-17).
4 tn So BDAG 307 s.v. ἐκπηδάω 1, “rush (lit. ‘leap’) out…εἰς τὸν ὄχλον into the crowd Ac 14:14.”
5 tn Grk “shouting and saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes, in v. 15) has not been translated because it is redundant.
sn What follows is one of two speeches in Acts to a purely pagan audience (Acts 17 in Athens is the other). So Paul focused on God as Creator, a common link.
6 tn Or “had assembled.”
