Discovery BoxActs 5:12 
Context5:12 Now many miraculous signs 1 and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By 2 common consent 3 they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico. 4
Acts 14:3
Context14:3 So they stayed there 5 for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified 6 to the message 7 of his grace, granting miraculous signs 8 and wonders to be performed through their hands.
Acts 28:8
Context28:8 The father 9 of Publius lay sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him 10 and after praying, placed 11 his hands on him and healed 12 him.
1 tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.
2 tn Grk “And by.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
3 tn Or “With one mind.”
4 tn Or “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”
sn Solomon’s Portico was a covered walkway formed by rows of columns supporting a roof and open on the inner side facing the center of the temple complex. Located beside the Court of the Gentiles, it was a very public area.
5 tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.
6 sn The Lord testified to the message by granting the signs described in the following clause.
7 tn Grk “word.”
8 tn Here the context indicates the miraculous nature of the signs mentioned.
9 tn Grk “It happened that the father.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
10 tn Grk “to whom Paul going in.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“whom”) was replaced by a personal pronoun (“him”) and a new sentence begun here in the translation. The participle εἰσελθών (eiselqwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
11 tn The participle ἐπιθείς (epiqeis) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
12 sn And healed him. Here are healings like Luke 9:40; 10:30; 13:13; Acts 16:23.
