Discovery BoxActs 7:3 
Context7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ 1
Acts 7:14
Context7:14 So Joseph sent a message 2 and invited 3 his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people 4 in all.
Acts 10:24
Context10:24 The following day 5 he entered Caesarea. 6 Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously 7 for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
1 sn A quotation from Gen 12:1.
2 tn The words “a message” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
3 tn Or “Joseph had his father summoned” (BDAG 121 s.v. ἀποστέλλω 2.b).
4 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
