Discovery BoxActs 2:41 
Context2:41 So those who accepted 1 his message 2 were baptized, and that day about three thousand people 3 were added. 4
Acts 5:7
Context5:7 After an interval of about three hours, 5 his wife came in, but she did not know 6 what had happened.
Acts 11:11
Context11:11 At that very moment, 7 three men sent to me from Caesarea 8 approached 9 the house where we were staying. 10
1 tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”
2 tn Grk “word.”
3 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).
4 tn Or “were won over.”
5 tn Grk “It happened that after an interval of about three hours.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
6 tn Grk “came in, not knowing.” The participle has been translated with concessive or adversative force: “although she did not know.” In English, the adversative conjunction (“but”) conveys this nuance more smoothly.
7 tn Grk “And behold.”
8 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.
map For location see Map2 C1; Map4 B3; Map5 F2; Map7 A1; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
9 tn See BDAG 418 s.v. ἐφίστημι 1 for this meaning for ἐπέστησαν (epesthsan) here.
10 tn The word “staying” is not in the Greek text but is implied.
