Discovery BoxActs 9:17 
Context9:17 So Ananias departed and entered the house, placed 1 his hands on Saul 2 and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came here, 3 has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 4
Acts 12:17
Context12:17 He motioned to them 5 with his hand to be quiet and then related 6 how the Lord had brought 7 him out of the prison. He said, “Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place. 8
Acts 16:18
Context16:18 She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, 9 and turned 10 and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ 11 to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once. 12
Acts 16:37
Context16:37 But Paul said to the police officers, 13 “They had us beaten in public 14 without a proper trial 15 – even though we are Roman citizens 16 – and they threw us 17 in prison. And now they want to send us away 18 secretly? Absolutely not! They 19 themselves must come and escort us out!” 20
Acts 19:35
Context19:35 After the city secretary 21 quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person 22 is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper 23 of the temple of the great Artemis 24 and of her image that fell from heaven? 25
Acts 21:11
Context21:11 He came 26 to us, took 27 Paul’s belt, 28 tied 29 his own hands and feet with it, 30 and said, “The Holy Spirit says this: ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over 31 to the Gentiles.’”
Acts 25:24
Context25:24 Then Festus 32 said, “King Agrippa, 33 and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace 34 petitioned 35 me both in Jerusalem 36 and here, 37 shouting loudly 38 that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 28:6
Context28:6 But they were expecting that he was going to swell up 39 or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited 40 a long time and had seen 41 nothing unusual happen 42 to him, they changed their minds 43 and said he was a god. 44
Acts 28:17
Context28:17 After three days 45 Paul 46 called the local Jewish leaders 47 together. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, 48 although I had done 49 nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, 50 from Jerusalem 51 I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans. 52
1 tn Grk “and placing his hands on Saul, he said.” The participle ἐπιθείς (epiqei") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. For the same reason καί (kai) has not been translated before the participle.
2 tn Grk “on him”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Grk “on the road in which you came,” but the relative clause makes for awkward English style, so it was translated as a temporal clause (“as you came here”).
4 sn Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Here someone who is not an apostle (Ananias) commissions another person with the Spirit.
5 tn Or “He gave them a signal.” Grk “Giving them a signal…he related to them.” The participle κατασείσας (kataseisa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
6 tc ‡ Most
7 tn Or “led.”
8 sn He…went to another place. This is Peter’s last appearance in Acts with the exception of the Jerusalem council in Acts 15.
9 tn Grk “becoming greatly annoyed.” The participle διαπονηθείς (diaponhqei") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. The aorist has been translated as an ingressive aorist (entry into a state or condition). See BDAG 235 s.v. διαπονέομαι.
10 tn Grk “and turning.” The participle ἐπιστρέψας (epistreya") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
11 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
12 tn BDAG 1102-3 s.v. ὥρα 2.c has “at that very time, at once, instantly” for the usage in this verse.
13 tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the police officers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Grk “Having us beaten in public.” The participle δείραντες (deirante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
15 tn Or “in public, uncondemned.” BDAG 35 s.v. ἀκατάκριτος has “uncondemned, without due process” for this usage.
16 tn The participle ὑπάρχοντας (Juparconta") has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle.
17 tn The word “us” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.
18 tn L&N 28.71 has “send us away secretly” for this verse.
19 tn Grk “But they.”
20 sn They themselves must come and escort us out! Paul was asking for the injustice he and Silas suffered to be symbolically righted. It was a way of publicly taking their actions off the record and showing the apostles’ innocence, a major public statement. Note the apology given in v. 39.
21 tn Or “clerk.” The “scribe” (γραμματεύς, grammateu") was the keeper of the city’s records.
22 tn This is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo").
23 tn See BDAG 670 s.v. νεωκόρος. The city is described as the “warden” or “guardian” of the goddess and her temple.
24 sn Artemis was a Greek goddess worshiped particularly in Asia Minor, whose temple, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was located just outside the city of Ephesus.
25 tn Or “from the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
sn The expression fell from heaven adds a note of apologetic about the heavenly origin of the goddess. The city’s identity and well-being was wrapped up with this connection, in their view. Many interpreters view her image that fell from heaven as a stone meteorite regarded as a sacred object.
26 tn Grk “And coming.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here. The participle ἐλθών (elqwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
27 tn Grk “and taking.” This καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more. The participle ἄρας (aras) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
28 sn The belt was a band or sash used to keep money as well as to gird up the tunic (BDAG 431 s.v. ζώνη).
29 tn The participle δήσας (dhsas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
30 tn The words “with it” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
31 tn Grk “and will deliver him over into the hands of” (a Semitic idiom).
sn The Jews…will tie up…and will hand him over. As later events will show, the Jews in Jerusalem did not personally tie Paul up and hand him over to the Gentiles, but their reaction to him was the cause of his arrest (Acts 21:27-36).
32 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
33 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
34 tn Probably best understood as rhetorical hyperbole. BDAG 825 s.v. πλῆθος 2.b.γ states, “people, populace, population…τὸ πλῆθος the populace…ἅπαν τὸ πλ. τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων Ac 25:24.” However, the actions of the leadership are seen by Luke as representing the actions of the entire nation, so the remark is not inaccurate.
35 tn Or “appealed to” (BDAG 341 s.v. ἐντυγχάνω 1.a).
36 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
37 sn Here means “here in Caesarea.”
38 tn Or “screaming.”
39 tn Or “going to burn with fever.” According to BDAG 814 s.v. πίμπρημι, either meaning (“swell up” or “burn with fever”) is possible for Acts 28:6.
40 tn The participle προσδοκώντων (prosdokwntwn) has been taken temporally.
41 tn The participle θεωρούντων (qewrountwn) has been taken temporally.
42 tn Grk “happening.” The participle γινόμενον (ginomenon) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
43 tn Grk “changing their minds.” The participle μεταβαλόμενοι (metabalomenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
44 sn And said he was a god. The reaction is like Acts 14:11-19 where the crowd wanted to make Paul and Barnabas into gods. The providence of God had protected Paul again.
45 tn Grk “It happened that after three days.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
46 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
47 tn L&N 33.309 has “‘after three days, he called the local Jewish leaders together’ Ac 28:17.”
48 tn Grk “Men brothers,” but this is both awkward and unnecessary in English.
49 tn The participle ποιήσας (poihsas) has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle.
50 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
sn I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors. Once again Paul claimed to be faithful to the Jewish people and to the God of Israel.
51 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
52 tn Grk “into the hands of the Romans,” but this is redundant when παρεδόθην (paredoqhn) has been translated “handed over.”
