¹ tn Or “charge.”

¹ tn Grk “I charge.”

¹ tn Grk “charge it to me.”

¹ tn Or “bring charges against you.”

² tn Or “began to bring charges, saying.”

³ tn Heb “your hand”; NASB “under your charge.”

¹ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

¹ tn Heb “which he laid as a charge upon Israel.”

¹ tn Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”

² tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

¹ tn Heb “and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.”

¹ sn Without clearly indicating the charges against him. Again the point is made by Festus himself that there is difficulty even in articulating a charge against Paul.

⁵ sn Acting…saying…Jesus. The charges are serious, involving sedition (Luke 23:2). If the political charges were true, Rome would have to react.

³ sn Subverting our nation was a summary charge, as Jesus “subverted” the nation by making false claims of a political nature, as the next two detailed charges show.

² tn Note that the verb is second person plural (with an understood plural pronominal subject in Greek). The charge is again indirectly made against Jesus by charging the disciples.

¹ sn This charge refers to the task Paul described to Timothy in vv. 3-7 above.

¹ sn That is, serve them free of charge (cf. the end of v. 7).

⁴ sn The expression I sternly warn you means “I charge you as under oath.”

⁴ tn The translation “put in charge” is given by BDAG 492 s.v. καθίστημι 2.

² sn Wanted to execute them. The charge would surely be capital insubordination (Exod 22:28).