Discovery BoxActs 2:6 
Context2:6 When this sound 1 occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, 2 because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
Acts 2:11
Context2:11 both Jews and proselytes, 3 Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!” 4
Acts 4:1
Context4:1 While Peter and John 5 were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander 6 of the temple guard 7 and the Sadducees 8 came up 9 to them,
Acts 9:28
Context9:28 So he was staying with them, associating openly with them 10 in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.
Acts 14:9
Context14:9 This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul 11 stared 12 intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,
Acts 16:6
Context16:6 They went through the region of Phrygia 13 and Galatia, 14 having been prevented 15 by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message 16 in the province of Asia. 17
Acts 22:9
Context22:9 Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand 18 the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
1 tn Or “this noise.”
2 tn Or “was bewildered.”
3 sn Proselytes refers to Gentile (i.e., non-Jewish) converts to Judaism.
4 tn Or “God’s mighty works.” Here the genitive τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) has been translated as a subjective genitive.
5 tn Grk “While they”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Or “captain.”
7 tn Grk “the official of the temple,” a title for the commander of the Jewish soldiers guarding the temple (thus the translation, “the commander of the temple guard”). See L&N 37.91.
sn The commander of the temple guard was the title of the officer commanding the Jewish soldiers responsible for guarding and keeping order in the temple courts in Jerusalem.
8 sn The Sadducees controlled the official political structures of Judaism at this time, being the majority members of the Sanhedrin. They were known as extremely strict on law and order issues (Josephus, J. W. 2.8.2 [2.119], 2.8.14 [2.164-166]; Ant. 13.5.9 [13.171-173], 13.10.6 [13.293-298], 18.1.2 [18.11], 18.1.4 [18.16-17], 20.9.1 [20.199]; Life 2 [10-11]). See also Matt 3:7; 16:1-12; 22:23-34; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38; Acts 5:17; 23:6-8.
9 tn Or “approached.” This verb often denotes a sudden appearing (BDAG 418 s.v. ἐφίστημι 1).
10 tn Grk “he was with them going in and going out in Jerusalem.” The expression “going in and going out” is probably best taken as an idiom for association without hindrance. Some modern translations (NASB, NIV) translate the phrase “moving about freely in Jerusalem,” although the NRSV retains the literal “he went in and out among them in Jerusalem.”
11 tn Grk “speaking, who.” The relative pronoun has been replaced by the noun “Paul,” and a new sentence begun in the translation because an English relative clause would be very awkward here.
12 tn Or “looked.”
13 sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia.
14 sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor (North Galatia), or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch (South Galatia). The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.
15 tn Or “forbidden.”
16 tn Or “word.”
17 tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.
18 tn Grk “did not hear” (but see Acts 9:7). BDAG 38 s.v. ἀκούω 7 has “W. acc. τὸν νόμον understand the law Gal 4:21; perh. Ac 22:9; 26:14…belong here.” If the word has this sense here, then a metonymy is present, since the lack of effect is put for a failure to appreciate what was heard.
