Discovery BoxActs 5:27 
Context5:27 When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, 1 and the high priest questioned 2 them,
Acts 16:23
Context16:23 After they had beaten them severely, 3 they threw them into prison and commanded 4 the jailer to guard them securely.
Acts 16:39
Context16:39 and came 5 and apologized to them. After 6 they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly 7 to leave the city.
1 tn Or “the Sanhedrin” (the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
2 tn Or “interrogated,” “asked.”
3 tn Grk “Having inflicted many blows on them.” The participle ἐπιθέντες (epiqente") has been taken temporally. BDAG 384 s.v. ἐπιτίθημι 1.a.β has “inflict blows upon someone” for this expression, but in this context it is simpler to translate in English as “they had beaten them severely.”
4 tn Grk “commanding.” The participle παραγγείλαντες (parangeilante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
5 tn Grk “and coming, they apologized.” The participle ἐλθόντες (elqonte") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
6 tn Grk “and after.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.
7 tn The verb ἐρώτων (erwtwn) has been translated as an iterative imperfect; the English adverb “repeatedly” brings out the iterative force in the translation.
