Discovery BoxActs 22:1 
Context22:1 “Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense 1 that I now 2 make to you.”
Acts 22:22
Context22:22 The crowd 3 was listening to him until he said this. 4 Then 5 they raised their voices and shouted, 6 “Away with this man 7 from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!” 8
1 sn Listen to my defense. This is the first of several speeches Paul would make in his own defense: Acts 24:10ff.; 25:8, 16; and 26:1ff. For the use of such a speech (“apologia”) in Greek, see Josephus, Ag. Ap. 2.15 [2.147]; Wis 6:10.
2 tn The adverb νυνί (nuni, “now”) is connected with the phrase τῆς πρὸς ὑμᾶς νυνὶ ἀπολογίας (th" pro" Juma" nuni apologia") rather than the verb ἀκούσατε (akousate), and the entire construction (prepositional phrase plus adverb) is in first attributive position and thus translated into English by a relative clause.
3 tn Grk “They were listening”; the referent (the crowd) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “until this word.”
sn Until he said this. Note it is the mention of Paul’s mission to the Gentiles with its implication of ethnic openness that is so disturbing to the audience.
5 tn Grk “And.” To indicate the logical sequence, καί (kai) has been translated as “then” here.
6 tn Grk “and said.”
7 tn Grk “this one.”
8 tn BDAG 491 s.v. καθήκω has “to be appropriate, come/reach to, be proper/fitting…Usu. impers. καθήκει it comes (to someone)…foll. by acc. and inf….οὐ καθῆκεν αὐτὸν ζῆν he should not be allowed to live Ac 22:22.”
