Discovery BoxActs 16:24 
Context16:24 Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell 1 and fastened their feet in the stocks. 2
Acts 21:29
Context21:29 (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and 3 they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.) 4
1 tn Or “prison.”
2 tn L&N 6.21 has “stocks” for εἰς τὸ ξύλον (ei" to xulon) here, as does BDAG 685 s.v. ξύλον 2.b. However, it is also possible (as mentioned in L&N 18.12) that this does not mean “stocks” but a block of wood (a log or wooden column) in the prison to which prisoners’ feet were chained or tied. Such a possibility is suggested by v. 26, where the “bonds” (“chains”?) of the prisoners loosened.
3 tn Grk “whom.”
4 tn On the phrase “inner temple courts” see the note on the word “temple” in v. 28.
sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. The note explains the cause of the charge and also notes that it was false.
