Kisah Para Rasul 1:21

1:21 Thus one of the men ¹  who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with ²  us,

Kisah Para Rasul 10:31

10:31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity ³  have been remembered before God. ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 15:25

15:25 we have unanimously ⁵  decided ⁶  to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

Kisah Para Rasul 16:12

16:12 and from there to Philippi, ⁷  which is a leading city of that district ⁸  of Macedonia, ⁹  a Roman colony. ¹⁰  We stayed in this city for some days.

Kisah Para Rasul 19:2

19:2 and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ¹¹  They replied, ¹²  “No, we have not even ¹³  heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Kisah Para Rasul 22:7

22:7 Then I ¹⁴  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Kisah Para Rasul 27:27

27:27 When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven ¹⁵  across the Adriatic Sea, ¹⁶  about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. ¹⁷ 

Kisah Para Rasul 28:11

Paul Finally Reaches Rome

28:11 After three months we put out to sea ¹⁸  in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered at the island and had the “Heavenly Twins” ¹⁹  as its figurehead. ²⁰ 

[1:21]  ¹ tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only exceptionally is used in a generic sense of both males and females. In this context, where a successor to Judas is being chosen, only men were under consideration in the original historical context.

[1:21]  ² tn Grk “the Lord Jesus went in and out among us.” According to BDAG 294 s.v. εἰσέρχομαι 1.b.β, “ἐν παντὶ χρόνῳ ᾧ εἰσῆλθεν καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς went in and out among us = associated with us Ac 1:21.”

[10:31]  ³ tn Or “your gifts to the needy.”

[10:31]  ⁴ sn This statement is a paraphrase rather than an exact quotation of Acts 10:4.

[15:25]  ⁵ tn Grk “having become of one mind, we have decided.” This has been translated “we have unanimously decided” to reduce the awkwardness in English.

[15:25]  ⁶ tn BDAG 255 s.v. δοκέω 2.b.β lists this verse under the meaning “it seems best to me, I decide, I resolve.”

[16:12]  ⁷ map For location see JP1 C1; JP2 C1; JP3 C1; JP4 C1.

[16:12]  ⁸ tc ‡ Or perhaps, “a city in the first district” (there are a number of textual variants). L&N 1.85 follow the text of UBS⁴ and NA²⁷ here: “In Ac 16:12…the Greek New Testament published by the United Bible Societies has adopted a conjectural emendation, since the more traditional text, πρώτη τῆς μερίδος, literally ‘first of the district,’ is not only misleading in meaning but does not reflect the historical fact that Philippi was a city in one of the four districts of Macedonia but was not a capital city.” The original text is probably πρώτη τῆς μερίδος (prwth th" merido", “first of that district”) as found in Ì⁷⁴ א A C Ψ 33^vid 36 81 323 945 1175 1891 pc. This has traditionally been translated to give the impression that Philippi was the capital city of the district, but it does not necessarily have to be translated this way. The translation of the article before μερίδος as “that” acknowledges that there were other districts in the province of Macedonia.

[16:12]  ⁹ sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

[16:12]  ¹⁰ sn A Roman colony was a city whose residents were regarded as Roman citizens, since such cities were originally colonized by citizens of Rome. From Troas to Philippi was 130 mi (208 km).

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn The participle πιστεύσαντες (pisteusante") is taken temporally.

[19:2]  ¹² tn Grk “they [said] to him” (the word “said” is implied in the Greek text).

[19:2]  ¹³ tn This use of ἀλλά (alla) is ascensive and involves an ellipsis (BDAG 45 s.v. ἀλλά 3): “No, [not only did we not receive the Spirit,] but also we have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” However, this is lengthy and somewhat awkward in English, and the ascensive meaning can be much more easily represented by including the word “even” after the negation. Apparently these disciples were unaware of the provision of the Spirit that is represented in baptism. The language sounds like they did not know about a Holy Spirit, but this seems to be only linguistic shorthand for not knowing about the Spirit’s presence (Luke 3:15-18). The situation is parallel to that of Apollos. Apollos and these disciples represent those who “complete” their transition to messianic faith as Jews.

[22:7]  ¹⁴ tn This is a continuation of the same sentence in Greek using the connective τέ (te), but due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence a new sentence was begun in the translation here. To indicate the logical sequence for the modern English reader, τέ was translated as “then.”

[27:27]  ¹⁵ tn Here “being driven” has been used to translate διαφέρω (diaferw) rather than “drifting,” because it is clear from the attempt to drop anchors in v. 29 that the ship is still being driven by the gale. “Drifting” implies lack of control, but not necessarily rapid movement.

[27:27]  ¹⁶ sn The Adriatic Sea. They were now somewhere between Crete and Malta.

[27:27]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “suspected that some land was approaching them.” BDAG 876 s.v. προσάγω 2.a states, “lit. ὑπενόουν προσάγειν τινά αὐτοῖς χώραν they suspected that land was near (lit. ‘approaching them’) Ac 27:27.” Current English idiom would speak of the ship approaching land rather than land approaching the ship.

[28:11]  ¹⁸ tn BDAG 62 s.v. ἀνάγω 4, “as a nautical t.t. (ἀ. τὴν ναῦν put a ship to sea), mid. or pass. ἀνάγεσθαι to begin to go by boat, put out to sea.”

[28:11]  ¹⁹ tn Or “the ‘Twin Gods’”; Grk “the Dioscuri” (a joint name for the pagan deities Castor and Pollux).

[28:11]  sn That had the ‘Heavenly Twins’ as its figurehead. The twin brothers Castor and Pollux, known collectively as the Dioscuri or ‘Heavenly Twins,’ were the twin sons of Zeus and Leda according to Greek mythology. The Alexandrian ship on which Paul and his companions sailed from Malta had a carved emblem or figurehead of these figures, and they would have been the patron deities of the vessel. Castor and Pollux were the “gods of navigation.” To see their stars was considered a good omen (Epictetus, Discourses 2.18.29; Lucian of Samosata, The Ship 9).

[28:11]  ²⁰ tn Or “as its emblem.”