Discovery BoxActs 15:33 
Context15:33 After 1 they had spent some time there, 2 they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
Acts 18:23
Context18:23 After he spent 3 some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia 4 and Phrygia, 5 strengthening all the disciples.
1 tn Grk “And after.” 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 tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.
3 tn Grk “Having spent”; the participle ποιήσας (poihsas) is taken temporally.
4 sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor, or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch. The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.
5 sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia. See Acts 16:6.
