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 21:30
Context21:30 The whole city was stirred up, 6 and the people rushed together. 7 They seized 8 Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, 9 and immediately the doors were shut.
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 On this term see BDAG 545 s.v. κινέω 2.b.
7 tn Or “the people formed a mob.” BDAG 967 s.v. συνδρομή has “formation of a mob by pers. running together, running together…ἐγένετο σ. τοῦ λαοῦ the people rushed together Ac 21:30.”
8 tn Grk “and seizing.” The participle ἐπιλαβόμενοι (epilabomenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in the translation, and καί (kai) has not been translated here.
9 tn Grk “out of the temple.” See the note on the word “temple” in v. 28.
