Discovery BoxActs 4:17 
Context4:17 But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more 1 to anyone in this name.”
Acts 9:25
Context9:25 But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening 2 in the wall by lowering him in a basket. 3
Acts 23:32
Context23:32 The next day they let 4 the horsemen 5 go on with him, and they returned to the barracks. 6
1 tn Or “speak no longer.”
2 tn The opening in the wall is not specifically mentioned here, but the parallel account in 2 Cor 11:33 mentions a “window” or “opening” (θυρίς, quris) in the city wall through which Paul was lowered. One alternative to introducing mention of the opening is to translate Acts 9:25 “they let him down over the wall,” as suggested in L&N 7.61. This option is not employed by many translations, however, because for the English reader it creates an (apparent) contradiction between Acts 9:25 and 2 Cor 11:33. In reality the account here is simply more general, omitting the detail about the window.
3 tn On the term for “basket” used here, see BDAG 940 s.v. σπυρίς.
4 tn Grk “letting.” The participle ἐάσαντες (easante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
5 tn Or “cavalrymen.”
6 tn Or “the headquarters.” BDAG 775 s.v. παρεμβολή 2 has “barracks/headquarters of the Roman troops in Jerusalem Ac 21:34, 37; 22:24; 23:10, 16, 32.”
