Discovery BoxActs 20:25 
Context20:25 “And now 1 I know that none 2 of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom 3 will see me 4 again.
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 22:19
Context22:19 I replied, 7 ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues 8 who believed in you.
Acts 23:28
Context23:28 Since I wanted to know 9 what charge they were accusing him of, 10 I brought him down to their council. 11
Acts 26:15
Context26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, 12 ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
Acts 26:17
Context26:17 I will rescue 13 you from your own people 14 and from the Gentiles, to whom 15 I am sending you
Acts 27:23
Context27:23 For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong 16 and whom I serve 17 came to me 18
1 tn Grk “And now, behold.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “all of you…will not see.” Greek handles its negation somewhat differently from English, and the translation follows English grammatical conventions.
3 sn Note how Paul’s usage of the expression proclaiming the kingdom is associated with (and intertwined with) his testifying to the good news of God’s grace in v. 24. For Paul the two concepts were interrelated.
4 tn Grk “will see my face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).
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 “And I said.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai, in καγώ [kagw]) has not been translated here.
8 tn For the distributive sense of the expression κατὰ τὰς συναγωγάς (kata ta" sunagwga") BDAG 512 s.v. κατά B.1.d has “of places viewed serially, distributive use w. acc.…κατ᾿ οἶκαν from house to house…Ac 2:46b; 5:42…Likew. the pl.…κ. τὰς συναγωγάς 22:19.” See also L&N 37.114.
sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.
9 tn Or “determine.”
10 tn Grk “to know the charge on account of which they were accusing him.” This has been simplified to eliminate the prepositional phrase and relative pronoun δι᾿ ἣν (di’ }hn) similar to L&N 27.8 which has “‘I wanted to find out what they were accusing him of, so I took him down to their Council’ Ac 23:28.”
11 tn Grk “their Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
12 tn Grk “said.”
13 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.
14 tn That is, from the Jewish people. Grk “the people”; the words “your own” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.
15 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is probably both the Jews (“your own people”) and the Gentiles, indicating the comprehensive commission Paul received.
16 tn Grk “of whom I am.” The relative clause with its possessive was translated following L&N 15.86 s.v. παρίσταμαι.
17 tn Or “worship.”
18 tn Or “stood by me.” BDAG 778 s.v. παρίστημι/παριστάνω 2.a.α states, “approach, come τινί (to) someone…Ac 9:39; 27:23.”
