Discovery BoxActs 4:34 
Context4:34 For there was no one needy 1 among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling 2 them 3 and bringing the proceeds from the sales
Acts 5:16
Context5:16 A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem 4 also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. 5 They 6 were all 7 being healed.
Acts 25:7
Context25:7 When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, 8 bringing many serious 9 charges that they were not able to prove. 10
1 tn Or “poor.”
2 tn Grk “houses, selling them were bringing.” The participle πωλοῦντες (pwlounte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
3 tn The word “them” 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.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.
6 tn Literally a relative pronoun, “who.” In English, however, a relative clause (“bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits, who were all being healed”) could be understood to refer only to the second group (meaning only those troubled by unclean spirits were being healed) or even that the unclean spirits were being healed. To avoid this ambiguity the pronoun “they” was used to begin a new English sentence.
7 sn They were all being healed. Note how the healings that the apostles provided were comprehensive in their consistency.
8 tn BDAG 801 s.v. περιίστημι 1.a has “περιέστησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι the Judeans stood around him 25:7.”
9 tn Grk “many and serious.” The term βαρύς (barus) refers to weighty or serious charges (BDAG 167 s.v. 1).
10 tn The term ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeiknumi) in a legal context refers to legal proof (4 Macc 1:8; BDAG 108 s.v. 3).
