¹ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities).

⁴ tn That is, strictest religious party. “Party” alone is used in the translation because “the strictest religious party of our religion” would be redundant.

³ tn Or “I am not willing to be.” Gallio would not adjudicate their religious dispute.

³ tn Or “and serve,” but with religious/cultic overtones (BDAG 587 s.v. λατρεύω).

³ sn A large group. Many Jews, even some religious leaders, were responding.

¹ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities like the chief priests and Pharisees).

² tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities like the Pharisees).

³ tn Or “among the common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities mentioned in the previous verse).

¹ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities mentioned in 7:15).

¹ tn That is, to conduct the religious rituals directed to the Lord.

⁴ sn The resurrection of the dead. Paul’s point was, what crime was there in holding this religious belief?

¹ sn A tabernacle was a tent used to house religious objects or a shrine (i.e., a portable sanctuary).

³ sn The Jewish religious leaders considered the work involved in making the mud to be a violation of the Sabbath.

¹ tn Or “among the common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities like the chief priests and Pharisees).

¹ sn If the religious leaders will not dare to question Jesus any longer, then he will question them.

² tn Or “bunch,” but this loses the irony; the word is used for the solemn assemblies at the religious feasts.

² sn Seven is a number with religious significance; it is often required in sacrificial ritual for atonement or for purification.

¹ tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).

² tn The חַרְטֻמִּים (khartummim) seem to have been the keepers of Egypt’s religious and magical texts, the sacred scribes.

¹ tn The adjective “religious” has been supplied in the translation to make clear that the problem concerns observing certain days, etc. in a religious sense (cf. NIV, NRSV “special days”). In light of the polemic in this letter against the Judaizers (those who tried to force observance of the Mosaic law on Gentile converts to Christianity) this may well be a reference to the observance of Jewish Sabbaths, feasts, and other religious days.