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 25:26
Context25:26 But I have nothing definite 5 to write to my lord 6 about him. 7 Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, 8 so that after this preliminary hearing 9 I may have something to write.
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 sn There is irony here. How can Festus write anything definite about Paul, if he is guilty of nothing.
6 sn To my lord means “to His Majesty the Emperor.”
7 tn Grk “about whom I have nothing definite…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“whom”) was replaced with a personal pronoun (“him”) and a new sentence begun in the translation at the beginning of v. 26.
8 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
9 tn Or “investigation.” BDAG 66 s.v. ἀνάκρισις has “a judicial hearing, investigation, hearing, esp. preliminary hearing…τῆς ἀ. γενομένης Ac 25:26.” This is technical legal language.
