Discovery BoxActs 5:8 
Context5:8 Peter said to her, “Tell me, were the two of you 1 paid this amount 2 for the land?” Sapphira 3 said, “Yes, that much.”
Acts 23:22
Context23:22 Then the commanding officer 4 sent the young man away, directing him, 5 “Tell no one that you have reported 6 these things to me.”
1 tn The words “the two of” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied to indicate that the verb (ἀπέδοσθε, apedosqe) is plural and thus refers to both Ananias and Sapphira.
2 tn Grk “so much,” “as much as this.”
3 tn Grk “She”; the referent (Sapphira) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “the chiliarch” (an officer in command of a thousand soldiers). See note on the term “commanding officer” in v. 10.
5 tn BDAG 760 s.v. παραγγέλλω has “to make an announcement about someth. that must be done, give orders, command, instruct, direct of all kinds of persons in authority, worldly rulers, Jesus, the apostles…παραγγέλλειν w. an inf. and μή comes to mean forbid to do someth.: π. τινί w. aor. inf. Lk 5:14; 8:56; without the dat., which is easily supplied fr. the context Ac 23:22.” However, if the direct discourse which follows is to be retained in the translation, a different translation must be used since it is awkward to introduce direct discourse with the verb to forbid. Thus the alternative to direct was used.
6 tn On this verb, see BDAG 325-26 s.v. ἐμφανίζω 2. The term was frequently used of an official report to authorities. In modern terms, this was a police tip.
