Acts 23:35
Context| NETBible | he said, “I will give you a hearing 1 when your accusers arrive too.” Then 2 he ordered that Paul 3 be kept under guard in Herod’s palace. 4 |
| XREF | Mt 2:1,3,16; Mt 27:27; Joh 18:28; Ac 23:30; Ac 24:1,10,22,24-27; Ac 25:16 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “I will hear your case.” BDAG 231 s.v. διακούω has “as legal t.t. give someone an opportunity to be heard in court, give someone (τινός) a hearing Ac 23:35”; L&N 56.13 has “to give a judicial hearing in a legal matter – ‘to hear a case, to provide a legal hearing, to hear a case in court.’” 2 tn Grk “ordering.” The participle κελεύσας (keleusas) has been translated as a finite verb and a new sentence begun here due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence. “Then” has also been supplied to indicate the logical and temporal sequence. 3 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity. 4 sn Herod’s palace (Grk “Herod’s praetorium”) was the palace built in Caesarea by Herod the Great. See Josephus, Ant. 15.9.6 (15.331). These events belong to the period of |
