Kisah Para Rasul 1:2

1:2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, ¹  after he had given orders ²  by ³  the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Kisah Para Rasul 16:34

16:34 The jailer ⁴  brought them into his house and set food ⁵  before them, and he rejoiced greatly ⁶  that he had come to believe ⁷  in God, together with his entire household. ⁸ 

Kisah Para Rasul 17:25

17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, ⁹  because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. ¹⁰ 

[1:2]  ¹ tn The words “to heaven” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied from v. 11. Several modern translations (NIV, NRSV) supply the words “to heaven” after “taken up” to specify the destination explicitly mentioned later in 1:11.

[1:2]  ² tn Or “commands.” Although some modern translations render ἐντειλάμενος (enteilameno") as “instructions” (NIV, NRSV), the word implies authority or official sanction (G. Schrenk, TDNT 2:545), so that a word like “orders” conveys the idea more effectively. The action of the temporal participle is antecedent (prior) to the action of the verb it modifies (“taken up”).

[1:2]  ³ tn Or “through.”

[16:34]  ⁴ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the jailer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:34]  ⁵ tn Grk “placed [food] on the table” (a figurative expression). Since the actual word for food is not specified, it would also be possible to translate “set a meal before them,” but since this is taking place in the middle of the night, the preparations necessary for a full meal would probably not have been made. More likely Paul and Silas were given whatever was on hand that needed little or no preparation.

[16:34]  ⁶ tn Or “he was overjoyed.”

[16:34]  ⁷ tn The translation “come to believe” reflects more of the resultative nuance of the perfect tense here.

[16:34]  ⁸ tn The phrase “together with his entire household” is placed at the end of the English sentence so that it refers to both the rejoicing and the belief. A formal equivalence translation would have “and he rejoiced greatly with his entire household that he had come to believe in God,” but the reference to the entire household being baptized in v. 33 presumes that all in the household believed.

[17:25]  ⁹ tn L&N 57.45 has “nor does he need anything more that people can supply by working for him.”

[17:25]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he himself gives to all [people] life and breath and all things.”