³ tn Grk “to see his face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).

⁴ tn Grk “will see my face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).

⁵ tn The noun χειραγωγός (cheiragōgos) is plural, so “people” is used rather than singular “someone.”

² sn Philip baptized. Again, someone beyond the Twelve has ministered an ordinance of faith.

¹ tn Grk “joined himself to” (in this case an idiom for beginning to work for someone).

² sn The phrase raised up means for God to bring someone significant onto the scene of history.

³ tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).

⁶ tn Heb “[an object] of hissing,” which was a way of taunting someone.

³ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

¹ tn The term מַקְשִׁיבִים (maqshivim) is in the Hiphil stem which denotes an intense desire to hear someone’s voice, that is, to eagerly listen for someone’s voice (e.g., Jer 6:17) (HALOT 1151 s.v. קשׁב 1). The participle functions verbally and denotes a continual, ongoing, durative action.

² tn The term חוֹנֵן (khonen, “someone who shows favor”) is the active participle.

⁵ tn Heb “a man of understanding”; TEV “someone with insight”; NLT “the wise.”

¹ tn Heb “open the eye on,” an idiom meaning to prepare to judge someone.

² sn The idiom “to grasp the hand” of someone means to support or help the person.

¹ tn The verb has no expressed subject, and so may be translated with “one” or “someone.”

¹ tn Or “commend.” BDAG 772 s.v. παρατίθημι 3.b has “τινά τινι entrust someone to the care or protection of someone…Of divine protection παρέθεντο αὐτοὺς τῷ κυρίῳ Ac 14:23; cf. 20:32.”

³ tn BDAG 865 s.v. προβάλλω 1 has “to cause to come forward, put forward…τινά someone…push someone forward to speak in the theater…Ac 19:33.”

¹ tn See BDAG 977-78 s.v. σύρω on this verb. It was used in everyday speech of dragging in fish by a net, or dragging away someone’s (presumably) dead body (Paul in Acts 14:19).

² sn The expression raised up refers here to making someone king. There is a wordplay here: “raising up” refers to bringing someone onto the scene of history, but it echoes with the parallel to Jesus’ resurrection.

⁴ sn Satan has demanded permission to put them to the test. The idiom “sift (someone) like wheat” is similar to the English idiom “to pick (someone) apart.” The pronoun you is implied.