Discovery BoxActs 4:7 
Context4:7 After 1 making Peter and John 2 stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name 3 did you do this?”
Acts 23:20
Context23:20 He replied, 4 “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council 5 tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.
1 tn Grk “And after.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new sentence is begun in the translation at the beginning of v. 7.
2 tn Grk “making them”; the referents (Peter and John) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 sn By what name. The issue of the “name” comes up again here. This question, meaning “by whose authority,” surfaces an old dispute (see Luke 20:1-8). Who speaks for God about the ancient faith?
4 tn Grk “He said.”
5 tn Grk “the Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
