Discovery BoxActs 21:33 
Context21:33 Then the commanding officer 1 came up and arrested 2 him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; 3 he 4 then asked who he was and what 5 he had done.
Acts 22:10
Context22:10 So I asked, 6 ‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Get up 7 and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything 8 that you have been designated 9 to do.’
Acts 23:18
Context23:18 So the centurion 10 took him and brought him to the commanding officer 11 and said, “The prisoner Paul called 12 me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”
Acts 25:20
Context25:20 Because I was at a loss 13 how I could investigate these matters, 14 I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried 15 there on these charges. 16
1 tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 31.
2 tn Grk “seized.”
3 tn The two chains would be something like handcuffs (BDAG 48 s.v. ἅλυσις and compare Acts 28:20).
4 tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in the translation, and καί (kai) has been replaced with a semicolon. “Then” has been supplied after “he” to clarify the logical sequence.
5 tn Grk “and what it is”; this has been simplified to “what.”
6 tn Grk “So I said.”
7 tn Grk “Getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.
8 tn Grk “about all things.”
9 tn Or “assigned,” “ordered.” BDAG 991 s.v. τάσσω 2.a has “act. and pass., foll. by acc. w. inf.…περὶ πάντων ὧν τέτακταί σοι ποιῆσαι concerning everything that you have been ordered to do 22:10.” There is an allusion to a divine call and commission here.
10 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the centurion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 10.
12 tn Grk “calling.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesameno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
13 tn Or “Because I was undecided.” Grk “Being at a loss.” The participle ἀπορούμενος (aporoumeno") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
14 tn L&N 27.34 states, “ἀπορούμενος δὲ ἐγὼ τὴν περὶ τούτων ζήτησιν ‘I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters’ Ac 25:20. The clause ‘about how I could get information on these matters’ may also be rendered as ‘about how I should try to find out about these matters’ or ‘about how I could learn about these matters.’”
15 tn Or “stand trial.”
16 tn Grk “on these things.”
