Discovery BoxActs 3:19 
Context3:19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,
Acts 7:44
Context7:44 Our ancestors 1 had the tabernacle 2 of testimony in the wilderness, 3 just as God 4 who spoke to Moses ordered him 5 to make it according to the design he had seen.
Acts 17:4
Context17:4 Some of them were persuaded 6 and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group 7 of God-fearing Greeks 8 and quite a few 9 prominent women.
1 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
2 tn Or “tent.”
sn The tabernacle was the tent used to house the ark of the covenant before the construction of Solomon’s temple. This is where God was believed to reside, yet the people were still unfaithful.
3 tn Or “desert.”
4 tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.
6 tn Or “convinced.”
7 tn Or “a large crowd.”
8 tn Or “of devout Greeks,” but this is practically a technical term for the category called God-fearers, Gentiles who worshiped the God of Israel and in many cases kept the Mosaic law, but did not take the final step of circumcision necessary to become a proselyte to Judaism. See further K. G. Kuhn, TDNT 6:732-34, 743-44. Luke frequently mentions such people (Acts 13:43, 50; 16:14; 17:17; 18:7).
9 tn Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quite a few” (which is the actual meaning of the expression).
