¹ tn Or “dispute.”

² tn Or “rivalries, disputes.”

¹ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

¹ tn Or “disputing,” “conducting a heated discussion.”

² tn Or “a dispute” (BDAG 940 s.v. στάσις 3).

² tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”

³ tn Grk “the oath for confirmation is an end of all dispute.”

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

² sn This qualifying clause in the narrative indicates who represented God in the dispute.

³ tn Or “believers disputed with,” “believers criticized” (BDAG 231 s.v. διακρίνω 5.b).

⁶ sn Legal disputes were resolved in the city gate, where the town elders met.

² tn The meaning of this verse is disputed; it may refer to cattle sensing the approaching storm.

¹ tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).

¹ tn The Hebrew verb used here means “to argue; to dispute”; it can focus on the beginning of the dispute (as here), the dispute itself, or the resolution of a dispute (Isa 1:18). Apparently the complaint was lodged before the actual oath was taken.

² tn The Hebrew word רִבוֹת (rivot, “disputes, contentions”) continues the imagery of presenting a legal case. The term is used of legal disputations and litigation. See, also, v. 19a.

¹ tn Or “arguing.” BDAG 954 s.v. συζητέω 2 gives “dispute, debate, argue…τινί ‘w. someone’” for συνεζήτει (sunezētei).

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the dispute among the apostles.

¹ sn Though some dispute that Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple of Jesus, his actions regarding Jesus’ burial suggest otherwise.

² sn In ancient Israelite culture, legal disputes were resolved in the city gate, where the town elders met.

² sn Legal disputes were resolved at the city gate, where the town elders met. See Amos 5:10.