Kisah Para Rasul 12:5

12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly ¹  praying to God for him. ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 24:27

24:27 After two years ³  had passed, Porcius Festus ⁴  succeeded Felix, ⁵  and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison. ⁶ 

Kisah Para Rasul 28:16

28:16 When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live ⁷  by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

Kisah Para Rasul 28:30

28:30 Paul ⁸  lived ⁹  there two whole years in his own rented quarters ¹⁰  and welcomed ¹¹  all who came to him,

[12:5]  ¹ tn Or “constantly.” This term also appears in Luke 22:14 and Acts 26:7.

[12:5]  ² tn Grk “but earnest prayer was being made by the church to God for him.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to follow English style, and the somewhat awkward passive “prayer was being made” has been changed to the simpler active verb “were praying.” Luke portrays what follows as an answer to prayer.

[24:27]  ³ tn Grk “After a two-year period.”

[24:27]  ⁴ sn Porcius Festus was the procurator of Palestine who succeeded Felix; neither the beginning nor the end of his rule (at his death) can be determined with certainty, although he appears to have died in office after about two years. Nero recalled Felix in a.d. 57 or 58, and Festus was appointed to his vacant office in a.d. 57, 58, or 59. According to Josephus (Ant. 20.8.9-10 [20.182-188]; J. W. 2.14.1 [2.271-272]), his administration was better than that of his predecessor Felix or his successor Albinus, but Luke in Acts portrays him in a less favorable light: He was willing to sacrifice Paul to court Jewish favor by taking him to Jerusalem for trial (v. 9), regardless of Paul’s guilt or innocence. The one characteristic for which Festus was noted is that he dealt harshly with those who disturbed the peace.

[24:27]  ⁵ tn Grk “Felix received as successor Porcius Festus.”

[24:27]  sn See the note on Felix in 23:26.

[24:27]  ⁶ tn Grk “left Paul imprisoned.”

[24:27]  sn Felix left Paul in prison. Luke makes the point that politics got in the way of justice here; keeping Paul in prison was a political favor to the Jews.

[28:16]  ⁷ tn Or “to stay.”

[28:16]  sn Allowed to live by himself. Paul continued to have a generous prison arrangement (cf. Acts 27:3).

[28:30]  ⁸ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:30]  ⁹ tn Or “stayed.”

[28:30]  ¹⁰ tn Or perhaps, “two whole years at his own expense.” BDAG 654 s.v. μίσθωμα states, “the customary act. mng. ‘contract price, rent’…is not found in our lit. (Ac) and the pass. what is rented, a rented house is a mng. not found outside it (even Ammonius Gramm. [100 ad] p. 93 Valck. knows nothing of it. Hence the transl. at his own expense [NRSV] merits attention) ἐν ἰδίῳ μισθώματι in his own rented lodgings Ac 28:30 (for the idea cp. Jos., Ant. 18, 235).”

[28:30]  ¹¹ tn Or “and received.”