Discovery BoxActs 18:15 
Context18:15 but since it concerns points of disagreement 1 about words and names and your own law, settle 2 it yourselves. I will not be 3 a judge of these things!”
Acts 25:19
Context25:19 Rather they had several points of disagreement 4 with him about their own religion 5 and about a man named Jesus 6 who was dead, whom Paul claimed 7 to be alive.
1 tn Or “dispute.”
2 tn Grk “see to it” (an idiom).
3 tn Or “I am not willing to be.” Gallio would not adjudicate their religious dispute.
4 tn Grk “several controversial issues.” BDAG 428 s.v. ζήτημα states, “in our lit. only in Ac, w. the mng. it still has in Mod. Gk. (controversial) question, issue, argument…Ac 15:2; 26:3. ζ. περί τινος questions about someth.…18:15; 25:19.”
5 tn On this term see BDAG 216 s.v. δεισιδαιμονία 2. It is a broad term for religion.
sn About their own religion. Festus made it clear that in his view as a neutral figure (and as one Luke had noted was disposed to help the Jews), he saw no guilt in Paul. The issue was a simple religious dispute.
6 tn Grk “a certain Jesus.”
7 tn Or “asserted.”
