Acts 12:2

12:2 He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword. ¹ 

Acts 27:10

27:10 “Men, I can see the voyage is going to end ²  in disaster ³  and great loss not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” ⁴ 

Acts 27:17

27:17 After the crew ⁵  had hoisted it aboard, ⁶  they used supports ⁷  to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground ⁸  on the Syrtis, ⁹  they lowered the sea anchor, ¹⁰  thus letting themselves be driven along.

Acts 28:14

28:14 There ¹¹  we found ¹²  some brothers ¹³  and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome. ¹⁴ 

¹ sn The expression executed with a sword probably refers to a beheading. James was the first known apostolic martyr (Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. 2.9.1-3). On James, not the Lord’s brother, see Luke 5:10; 6:14. This death ended a short period of peace noted in Acts 9:31 after the persecution mentioned in 8:1-3.

² tn Grk “is going to be with disaster.”

³ tn Or “hardship,” “damage.” BDAG 1022 s.v. ὕβρις 3 states, “fig. hardship, disaster, damage caused by the elements…w. ζημία Ac 27:10.”

⁴ tn Grk “souls” (here, one’s physical life).

³ tn Grk “After hoisting it up, they…”; the referent (the ship’s crew) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The participle ἄραντες (arantes) has been taken temporally.

⁵ tn Possibly “ropes” or “cables”; Grk “helps” (a word of uncertain meaning; probably a nautical technical term, BDAG 180 s.v. βοήθεια 2).

⁶ tn BDAG 308 s.v. ἐκπίπτω 2 states, “drift off course, run aground, nautical term εἴς τι on someth….on the Syrtis 27:17.”

⁷ tn That is, on the sandbars and shallows of the Syrtis.

⁸ tn Or perhaps “mainsail.” The meaning of this word is uncertain. BDAG 927 s.v. σκεῦος 1 has “τὸ σκεῦος Ac 27:17 seems to be the kedge or driving anchor” while C. Maurer (TDNT 7:362) notes, “The meaning in Ac. 27:17: χαλάσαντες τὸ σκεῦος, is uncertain. Prob. the ref. is not so much to taking down the sails as to throwing the draganchor overboard to lessen the speed of the ship.” In spite of this L&N 6.1 states, “In Ac 27:17, for example, the reference of σκεῦος is generally understood to be the mainsail.” A reference to the sail is highly unlikely because in a storm of the force described in Ac 27:14, the sail would have been taken down and reefed immediately, to prevent its being ripped to shreds or torn away by the gale.

⁴ tn Grk “where.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“where”) has been replaced with the demonstrative pronoun (“there”) and a new sentence begun here in the translation.

⁵ tn Grk “finding.” The participle εὑρόντες (Jeurontes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

⁶ sn That is, some fellow Christians.

⁷ map For location see JP4-A1.