Kisah Para Rasul 15:3

15:3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia ¹  and Samaria, they were relating at length ²  the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy ³  to all the brothers.

Kisah Para Rasul 17:10

Paul and Silas at Berea

17:10 The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea ⁴  at once, during the night. When they arrived, ⁵  they went to the Jewish synagogue. ⁶ 

Kisah Para Rasul 20:38

20:38 especially saddened ⁷  by what ⁸  he had said, that they were not going to see him ⁹  again. Then they accompanied ¹⁰  him to the ship.

[15:3]  ¹ sn Phoenicia was an area along the Mediterranean coast north of Palestine in ancient Syria.

[15:3]  ² tn L&N 33.201 indicates that ἐκδιηγέομαι (ekdihgeomai) means to provide detailed information in a systematic manner, “to inform, to relate, to tell fully.” “Relating at length” conveys this effectively in the present context.

[15:3]  ³ tn For ἐποίουν (epoioun) in this verse BDAG 839 s.v. ποιέω 2.c has “they brought joy to the members.”

[17:10]  ⁴ sn Berea (alternate spelling in NRSV Beroea; Greek Beroia) was a very old city in Macedonia on the river Astraeus about 45 mi (75 km) west of Thessalonica.

[17:10]  map For location see JP1 C1; JP2 C1; JP3 C1; JP4 C1.

[17:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “who arriving there, went to.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (οἵτινες, Joitine") has been left untranslated and a new English sentence begun. The participle παραγενόμενοι (paragenomenoi) has been taken temporally.

[17:10]  ⁶ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

[20:38]  ⁷ tn Or “pained.”

[20:38]  ⁸ tn Grk “by the word that he had said.”

[20:38]  ⁹ tn Grk “to see his face” (an idiom for seeing someone in person).

[20:38]  ¹⁰ tn BDAG 873 s.v. προπέμπω 1 has “they accompanied him to the ship Ac 20:38.”