Discovery BoxActs 15:36 
Context15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return 1 and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord 2 to see how they are doing.” 3
Acts 20:3
Context20:3 where he stayed 4 for three months. Because the Jews had made 5 a plot 6 against him as he was intending 7 to sail 8 for Syria, he decided 9 to return through Macedonia. 10
1 tn Grk “Returning let us visit.” The participle ἐπιστρέψαντες (epistreyante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
2 tn See the note on the phrase “word of the Lord” in v. 35.
3 tn BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.b has “how they are” for this phrase.
4 tn BDAG 841 s.v. ποιέω 5.c, “w. an acc. of time spend, stay.”
5 tn The participle βενομένης (benomenh") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle. L&N 30.71 has “ἐπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων ‘because the Jews had made a plot against him’ Ac 20:3.”
6 sn This plot is one of several noted by Luke (Acts 9:20; 20:19; 23:30).
7 tn BDAG 628 s.v. μέλλω 1.c.γ has “denoting an intended action: intend, propose, have in mind…Ac 17:31; 20:3, 7, 13ab; 23:15; 26:2; 27:30.”
8 tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4 gives “put out to sea” here (as a nautical technical term). However, since the English expression “put out to sea” could be understood to mean Paul was already aboard the ship (which is not clear from the context), the simpler expression “sail” is used at this point in the translation.
9 tn BDAG 199 s.v. γίνομαι 7 has “ἐγένετο γνώμης he decided Ac 20:3.”
10 sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.
