Discovery BoxActs 8:30 
Context8:30 So Philip ran up 1 to it 2 and heard the man 3 reading Isaiah the prophet. He 4 asked him, 5 “Do you understand what you’re reading?”
Acts 22:9
Context22:9 Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand 6 the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
Acts 28:26
Context28:26 when he said,
‘Go to this people and say,
“You will keep on hearing, 7 but will never understand,
and you will keep on looking, 8 but will never perceive.
1 tn The participle προσδραμών (prosdramwn) is regarded as attendant circumstance.
2 tn The words “to it” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
3 tn Grk “heard him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.
5 tn Grk “he said”; but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.”
6 tn Grk “did not hear” (but see Acts 9:7). BDAG 38 s.v. ἀκούω 7 has “W. acc. τὸν νόμον understand the law Gal 4:21; perh. Ac 22:9; 26:14…belong here.” If the word has this sense here, then a metonymy is present, since the lack of effect is put for a failure to appreciate what was heard.
7 tn Grk “you will hear with hearing” (an idiom).
8 tn Or “seeing”; Grk “you will look by looking” (an idiom).
