Kisah Para Rasul 1:17

1:17 for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.” ¹ 

Kisah Para Rasul 14:12

14:12 They began to call ²  Barnabas Zeus ³  and Paul Hermes, ⁴  because he was the chief speaker.

Kisah Para Rasul 17:9

17:9 After ⁵  the city officials ⁶  had received bail ⁷  from Jason and the others, they released them.

[1:17]  ¹ tn Or “and was chosen to have a share in this ministry.” The term λαγχάνω (lancanw) here and in 2 Pet 1:1 can be understood as referring to the process of divine choice and thus be translated, “was chosen to have.”

[14:12]  ² tn The imperfect verb ἐκάλουν (ekaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

[14:12]  ³ sn Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).

[14:12]  ⁴ sn Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).

[17:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[17:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the city officials) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:9]  ⁷ tn That is, “a payment” or “a pledge of security” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 1) for which “bail” is the most common contemporary English equivalent.