Discovery BoxActs 20:22 
Context20:22 And now, 1 compelled 2 by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem 3 without knowing what will happen to me there, 4
Acts 20:29
Context20:29 I know that after I am gone 5 fierce wolves 6 will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
Acts 22:8
Context22:8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’
Acts 26:15
Context26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, 7 ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
Acts 26:17
Context26:17 I will rescue 8 you from your own people 9 and from the Gentiles, to whom 10 I am sending you
Acts 26:25
Context26:25 But Paul replied, 11 “I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus, 12 but am speaking 13 true and rational 14 words.
1 tn Grk “And now, behold.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “bound.”
3 sn This journey to Jerusalem suggests a parallel between Paul and Jesus, since the “Jerusalem journey” motif figures so prominently in Luke’s Gospel (9:51-19:44).
4 tn BDAG 965 s.v. συναντάω 2 has τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ συναντήσοντα ἐμοὶ μὴ εἰδώς without knowing what will happen to me there Ac 20:22.”
5 tn Grk “after my departure.”
6 tn That is, people like fierce wolves. See BDAG 167-68 s.v. βαρύς 4 on the term translated “fierce.” The battle that will follow would be a savage one.
7 tn Grk “said.”
8 tn Grk “rescuing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the participle ἐξαιρούμενος (exairoumeno") has been translated as a finite verb and a new sentence started in the translation at the beginning of v. 17.
9 tn That is, from the Jewish people. Grk “the people”; the words “your own” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.
10 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is probably both the Jews (“your own people”) and the Gentiles, indicating the comprehensive commission Paul received.
11 tn Grk “said.”
12 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
13 tn Or “declaring.” BDAG 125 s.v. ἀποφθέγγομαι states, “speak out, declare boldly or loudly…τὶ: σωφροσύνης ῥήματα Ac 26:25.”
14 tn BDAG 987 s.v. σωφροσύνη 1 has “gener. soundness of mind, reasonableness, rationality…ἀληθείας καὶ σωφροσύνης ῥήματα true and rational words (opp. μαίνομαι) Ac 26:25.”
