Discovery BoxActs 5:25 
Context5:25 But someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts 1 and teaching 2 the people!”
Acts 5:42
Context5:42 And every day both in the temple courts 3 and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news 4 that Jesus was the Christ. 5
Acts 13:12
Context13:12 Then when the proconsul 6 saw what had happened, he believed, 7 because he was greatly astounded 8 at the teaching about 9 the Lord.
Acts 17:19
Context17:19 So they took Paul and 10 brought him to the Areopagus, 11 saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?
Acts 20:20
Context20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming 12 to you anything that would be helpful, 13 and from teaching you publicly 14 and from house to house,
Acts 20:30
Context20:30 Even from among your own group 15 men 16 will arise, teaching perversions of the truth 17 to draw the disciples away after them.
1 tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.
2 sn Obeying God (see v. 29), the apostles were teaching again (4:18-20; 5:20). They did so despite the risk.
3 tn Grk “temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper and has been translated accordingly.
4 tn Grk “teaching and evangelizing.” They were still obeying God, not men (see 4:18-20; 5:29).
5 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
sn See the note on Christ in 2:31.
6 sn See the note on proconsul in v. 8.
7 sn He believed. The faith of the proconsul in the face of Jewish opposition is a theme of the rest of Acts. Paul has indeed become “a light to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:47).
8 tn The translation “greatly astounded” for ἐκπλησσόμενος (ekplhssomeno") is given by L&N 25.219.
9 tn Grk “of,” but this could give the impression the Lord himself had done the teaching (a subjective genitive) when actually the Lord was the object of the teaching (an objective genitive).
10 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Or “to the council of the Areopagus.” See also the term in v. 22.
sn The Areopagus has been traditionally understood as reference to a rocky hill near the Acropolis in Athens, although this place may well have been located in the marketplace at the foot of the hill (L&N 93.412; BDAG 129 s.v. ῎Αρειος πάγος). This term does not refer so much to the place, however, as to the advisory council of Athens known as the Areopagus, which dealt with ethical, cultural, and religious matters, including the supervision of education and controlling the many visiting lecturers. Thus it could be translated the council of the Areopagus. See also the term in v. 22.
12 tn Or “declaring.”
13 tn Or “profitable.” BDAG 960 s.v. συμφέρω 2.b.α has “τὰ συμφέροντα what advances your best interests or what is good for you Ac 20:20,” but the broader meaning (s.v. 2, “to be advantageous, help, confer a benefit, be profitable/useful”) is equally possible in this context.
14 tn Or “openly.”
15 tn Grk “from among yourselves.”
16 tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only rarely is used in a generic sense to refer to both males and females. Since Paul is speaking to the Ephesian elders at this point and there is nothing in the context to suggest women were included in that group (“from among your own group”), it is most likely Paul was not predicting that these false teachers would include women.
17 tn Grk “speaking crooked things”; BDAG 237 s.v. διαστρέφω 2 has “λαλεῖν διεστραμμένα teach perversions (of the truth) Ac 20:30.”
sn These perversions of the truth refer to the kinds of threats that would undermine repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. v. 21). Instead these false teachers would arise from within the Ephesian congregation (cf. 1 John 2:18-19) and would seek to draw the disciples away after them.
