⁴ tn Grk “the village where David was.”

¹ tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”

³ tn Grk “in it” (referring to the city or village).

¹ tn Heb “he sits in the ambush of the villages.”

¹ sn Havvoth Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair.”

² tn Grk “Into whatever town or village you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every town or village they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a town or village.”

¹ tn Grk “from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.”

² tn Grk “the village lying before [you]” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.a).

¹ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the villagers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

¹ tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

¹ sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

² sn The Hebrew name Havvoth Jair means “the tent villages of Jair.”

¹ tc Theodotian adds “in Israel,” perhaps to broaden the matter beyond the local village.

¹ tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”

² tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (p^erazi) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

⁵ sn By proclaiming the good news to many Samaritan villages, the apostles now actively share in the broader ministry the Hellenists had started.

¹ sn The village of Bethany, where Lazarus was, lies in Judea, less than 2 mi (3 km) from Jerusalem (see 11:18).

² sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well.

³ sn Bethany was village on the Mount of Olives about 2 mi (3 km) from Jerusalem; see John 11:1, 18.