Discovery Box| (0.40) | (1Sa 1:19) | 1 tn Or “bowed before the Lord.” The posture of bowing often represents the act of worshiping. |
| (0.40) | (Rut 3:10) | 3 tn Heb “latter [act of] devotion”; NRSV “this last instance of your loyalty.” |
| (0.40) | (Jdg 16:28) | 2 tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.” |
| (0.40) | (Jdg 8:35) | 1 tn Heb “did not do loyalty with,” or “did not act faithfully toward.” |
| (0.40) | (Deu 32:5) | 1 tn Heb “have acted corruptly” (so NASB, NIV84, NLT); NRSV “have dealt falsely.” |
| (0.40) | (Num 27:18) | 3 sn This symbolic act would indicate the transfer of leadership to Joshua. |
| (0.40) | (Lev 18:30) | 1 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.” |
| (0.40) | (Exo 15:11) | 3 tn S. R. Driver suggests “praiseworthy acts” as the translation (Exodus, 137). |
| (0.35) | (Act 24:15) | 5 sn This is the only mention of the resurrection of the unrighteous in Acts. The idea parallels the idea of Jesus as the judge of both the living and the dead (Acts 10:42; 17:31). |
| (0.35) | (Act 23:11) | 6 sn Like Jesus went to Jerusalem, Paul would now go to Rome. This trip forms the concluding backdrop to Acts. This is the second notice about going to Rome (see Acts 19:21 for the first). |
| (0.35) | (Act 22:15) | 1 sn You will be his witness. See Acts 1:8; 13:31. The following reference to all people stresses all nationalities (Eph 3:7-9; Acts 9:15). Note also v. 21. |
| (0.35) | (Act 18:9) | 1 sn Frequently in Acts such a vision will tell the reader where events are headed. See Acts 10:9-16 and 16:9-10 for other accounts of visions. |
| (0.35) | (Act 14:22) | 2 sn And encouraged them to continue. The exhortations are like those noted in Acts 11:23; 13:43. An example of such a speech is found in Acts 20:18-35. Christianity is now characterized as “the faith.” |
| (0.35) | (Act 14:14) | 5 sn What follows is one of two speeches in Acts to a purely pagan audience (Acts 17 in Athens is the other). So Paul focused on God as Creator, a common link. |
| (0.35) | (Act 13:13) | 6 sn Returned to Jerusalem. John Mark had originally accompanied them from Jerusalem (see Acts 12:25). John Mark’s decision to leave became an issue later for Barnabas and Paul (Acts 15:36-39). |
| (0.35) | (Act 13:12) | 2 sn He believed. The faith of the proconsul in the face of Jewish opposition is a theme of the rest of Acts. Paul has indeed become “a light to the Gentiles” (Acts 13:47). |
| (0.35) | (Act 12:16) | 2 sn That they were greatly astonished is a common response in Luke-Acts to God’s work (Luke 8:56; Acts 2:7, 12; 8:13; 9:21; 10:45). |
| (0.35) | (Act 11:28) | 4 sn This famine is one of the firmly fixed dates in Acts. It took place from a.d. 45-48. The events described in chap. 11 of Acts occurred during the early part of that period. |
| (0.35) | (Act 10:45) | 6 sn The gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out. Cf. the account in Acts 2, especially 2:33. Note also Joel 2:17-21 and Acts 11:15-18. |
| (0.35) | (Act 8:35) | 2 sn Beginning with this scripture. The discussion likely included many of the scriptures Acts has already noted for the reader in earlier speeches. At the least, readers of Acts would know what other scriptures might be meant. |
