Discovery BoxActs 5:14 
Context5:14 More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, 1 crowds of both men and women.
Acts 14:5
Context14:5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made 2 an attempt to mistreat 3 them and stone them, 4
Acts 15:32
Context15:32 Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech. 5
Acts 21:12
Context21:12 When we heard this, both we and the local people 6 begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
1 tn Or “More and more believers were added to the Lord.”
2 tn Grk “So there came about an attempt” 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.
3 tn On this verb see BDAG 1022 s.v. ὑβρίζω.
4 tn The direct object “them” is repeated after both verbs in the translation for stylistic reasons, although it occurs only after λιθοβολῆσαι (liqobolhsai) in the Greek text.
5 tn Here λόγου (logou) is singular. BDAG 599-600 s.v. λόγος 1.a.β has “in a long speech” for this phrase.
6 tn Or “the people there.”
