Discovery BoxActs 19:36 
Context19:36 So because these facts 1 are indisputable, 2 you must keep quiet 3 and not do anything reckless. 4
Acts 24:22
Context24:22 Then Felix, 5 who understood the facts 6 concerning the Way 7 more accurately, 8 adjourned their hearing, 9 saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.” 10
Acts 18:25
Context18:25 He had been instructed in 11 the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm 12 he spoke and taught accurately the facts 13 about Jesus, although he knew 14 only the baptism of John.
1 tn Grk “these things.”
2 tn The genitive absolute construction with the participle ὄντων (ontwn) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle. On the term translated “indisputable” see BDAG 68-69 s.v. ἀναντίρρητος which has “not to be contradicted, undeniable.”
3 tn Grk “it is necessary that you be quiet.”
4 tn L&N 88.98 has “pertaining to impetuous and reckless behavior – ‘reckless, impetuous.’…‘so then, you must calm down and not do anything reckless’ Ac 19:36.” The city secretary was asking that order be restored.
5 sn See the note on Antonius Felix in 23:24.
6 tn Grk “the things.”
7 tn That is, concerning Christianity.
8 tn BDAG 39 s.v. ἀκριβῶς has “Comp. ἀκριβέστερον more exactly…ἀ. ἐκτίθεσθαι explain more exactly Ac 18:26, cp. 23:15, 20; also more accurately…24:22.” Felix knew more about the Christian movement than what the Jewish leaders had told him.
9 tn L&N 56.18 s.v. ἀναβάλλω has “to adjourn a court proceeding until a later time – ‘to adjourn a hearing, to stop a hearing and put it off until later.’…‘then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned their hearing’ Ac 24:22.”
10 tn BDAG 227 s.v. διαγινώσκω 2 states, “to make a judicial decision, decide/hear (a case)…τὰ καθ᾿ ὑμᾶς decide your case Ac 24:22.”
11 tn Or “had been taught.”
12 tn Grk “and boiling in spirit” (an idiom for great eagerness or enthusiasm; BDAG 426 s.v. ζέω).
13 tn Grk “the things.”
14 tn Grk “knowing”; the participle ἐπιστάμενος (epistameno") has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle.
