Acts 9:29

He was speaking and debating ¹  with the Greek-speaking Jews, ²  but they were trying to kill him.

Ac 6:1; Ac 6:9,10; Ac 9:20-22,27; Ac 9:23; Ac 11:20; Ac 17:17; Ac 18:19; Ac 19:8; 2Co 11:26; Jude 1:3,9

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

² tn Grk “the Hellenists,” but this descriptive term is largely unknown to the modern English reader. The translation “Greek-speaking Jews” attempts to convey something of who these were, but it was more than a matter of language spoken; it involved a degree of adoption of Greek culture as well.