Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Act 14:27) | 3 sn On the image of opening, or of the door, see 1 Cor 16:9; 2 Cor 2:12; Col 4:3. |
| (0.30) | (Act 14:23) | 2 tn The preposition κατά (kata) is used here in a distributive sense; see BDAG 512 s.v. κατά B.1.d. |
| (0.30) | (Act 13:45) | 1 sn They were filled with jealousy. Their foolish response to the gospel is noted again (see Acts 5:17; 7:9; 17:5). |
| (0.30) | (Act 13:29) | 4 tn Grk “tree,” but frequently figurative for a cross. The allusion is to Deut 21:23. See Acts 5:30; 10:39. |
| (0.30) | (Act 13:18) | 2 tn For this verb, see BDAG 1017 s.v. τροποφορέω (cf. also Deut 1:31; Exod 16:35; Num 14:34). |
| (0.30) | (Act 12:21) | 2 tn Or “apparel.” On Herod’s robes see Josephus, Ant. 19.8.2 (19.344), summarized in the note at the end of v. 23. |
| (0.30) | (Act 12:20) | 3 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3. |
| (0.30) | (Act 12:19) | 7 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. |
| (0.30) | (Act 11:22) | 5 sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19. Again the Jerusalem church exercised an oversight role. |
| (0.30) | (Act 11:11) | 2 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. |
| (0.30) | (Act 10:28) | 6 sn God has shown me…unclean. Peter sees the significance of his vision as not about food, but about open fellowship between Jewish Christians and Gentiles. |
| (0.30) | (Act 10:15) | 3 sn For the significance of this vision see Mark 7:14-23; Rom 14:14; Eph 2:11-22. God directed this change in practice. |
| (0.30) | (Act 9:30) | 1 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine, south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. |
| (0.30) | (Act 8:40) | 6 sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:54) | 2 tn Or “they gnashed their teeth.” This idiom is a picture of violent rage (BDAG 184 s.v. βρύχω). See also Ps 35:16. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:51) | 2 tn The term ἀπερίτμητοι (aperitmētoi, “uncircumcised”) is a NT hapax legomenon (occurs only once). See BDAG 101-2 s.v. ἀπερίτμητος and Isa 52:1. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:42) | 2 sn To worship the hosts of heaven. Their action violated Deut 4:19; 17:2-5. See Ps 106:36-43. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:41) | 3 tn Or “a bull calf” (see Exod 32:4-6). The term μοσχοποιέω (moschopoieō) occurs only in Christian writings according to BDAG 660 s.v. |
| (0.30) | (Act 7:8) | 6 sn The twelve patriarchs refers to the twelve sons of Jacob, the famous ancestors of the Jewish race (see Gen 35:23-26). |
| (0.30) | (Act 5:25) | 2 sn Obeying God (see v. 29), the apostles were teaching again (4:18-20; 5:20). They did so despite the risk. |
