Discovery BoxActs 20:22-24 
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 20:23 except 5 that the Holy Spirit warns 6 me in town after town 7 that 8 imprisonment 9 and persecutions 10 are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life 11 worth anything 12 to myself, so that 13 I may finish my task 14 and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news 15 of God’s grace.
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 BDAG 826 s.v. πλήν 1.d has “πλὴν ὅτι except that…Ac 20:23.”
6 tn The verb διαμαρτύρομαι (diamarturomai) can mean “warn” (BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “solemnly urge, exhort, warn…w. dat. of pers. addressed”), and this meaning better fits the context here, although BDAG categorizes Acts 20:23 under the meaning “testify of, bear witness to” (s.v. 1).
7 tn The Greek text here reads κατὰ πόλιν (kata polin).
8 tn Grk “saying that,” but the participle λέγον (legon) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
9 tn Grk “bonds.”
10 tn Or “troubles,” “suffering.” See Acts 19:21; 21:4, 11.
11 tn Grk “soul.”
12 tn Or “I do not consider my life worth a single word.” According to BDAG 599 s.v. λόγος 1.a.α, “In the textually uncertain pass. Ac 20:24 the text as it stands in N., οὐδενὸς λόγου (v.l. λόγον) ποιοῦμαι τὴν ψυχὴν τιμίαν, may well mean: I do not consider my life worth a single word (cp. λόγου ἄξιον [ἄξιος 1a] and our ‘worth mention’).”
13 tn BDAG 1106 s.v. ὡς 9 describes this use as “a final particle, expressing intention/purpose, with a view to, in order to.”
14 tn Grk “course.” See L&N 42.26, “(a figurative extension of meaning of δρόμος ‘race’) a task or function involving continuity, serious, effort, and possibly obligation – ‘task, mission’…Ac 20:24.” On this Pauline theme see also Phil 1:19-26; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 4:6-7.
15 tn Or “to the gospel.”
