Discovery BoxActs 5:35 
Context5:35 Then he said to the council, 1 “Men of Israel, 2 pay close attention to 3 what you are about to do to these men.
Acts 8:10
Context8:10 All the people, 4 from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’” 5
Acts 10:24
Context10:24 The following day 6 he entered Caesarea. 7 Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously 8 for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
Acts 27:13
Context27:13 When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought 9 they could carry out 10 their purpose, so they weighed anchor 11 and sailed close along the coast 12 of Crete.
1 tn Grk “said to them”; the referent (the council) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Or “Israelite men,” although this is less natural English. The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only exceptionally is used in a generic sense of both males and females. In this context, it is highly unlikely that this is a generic usage, since Gamaliel was addressing the Sanhedrin, the Jewish high council, which would have been exclusively male.
3 tn Or “men, be careful.”
4 tn Grk “all of them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Or “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.” The translation “what is called the Great Power of God” is given by BDAG 263 s.v. δύναμις 5, but the repetition of the article before καλουμένη μεγάλη (kaloumenh megalh) suggests the translation “the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”
6 tn Grk “On the next day,” but since this phrase has already occurred in v. 23, it would be redundant in English to use it again here.
7 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi).
map For location see Map2 C1; Map4 B3; Map5 F2; Map7 A1; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
8 tn Normally προσδοκάω (prosdokaw) means “to wait with apprehension or anxiety for something,” often with the implication of impending danger or trouble (L&N 25.228), but in this context the anxiety Cornelius would have felt came from the importance of the forthcoming message as announced by the angel.
9 tn Grk “thinking.” The participle δόξαντες (doxante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
10 tn Or “accomplish.” L&N 68.29, for κρατέω, has “to be able to complete or finish, presumably despite difficulties – ‘to accomplish, to do successfully, to carry out.’ …‘thinking that they could carry out their purpose’ Ac 27:13.”
11 tn Or “departed.”
12 tn L&N 54.8, “παραλέγομαι: (a technical, nautical term) to sail along beside some object – ‘to sail along the coast, to sail along the shore.’…‘they sailed along the coast of Crete’ Ac 27:13.” With the addition of the adverb ἆσσον (asson) this becomes “sailed close along the coast of Crete.”
