Kisah Para Rasul 5:13

5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, ¹  but the people held them in high honor. ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:21

7:21 and when he had been abandoned, ³  Pharaoh’s daughter adopted ⁴  him and brought him up ⁵  as her own son.

Kisah Para Rasul 12:13

12:13 When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered. ⁶ 

[5:13]  ¹ tn Or “to associate with them.” The group was beginning to have a controversial separate identity. People were cautious about joining them. The next verse suggests that the phrase “none of the rest” in this verse is rhetorical hyperbole.

[5:13]  ² tn Or “the people thought very highly of them.”

[7:21]  ³ tn Or “exposed” (see v. 19).

[7:21]  ⁴ tn Grk “Pharaoh’s daughter took him up for herself.” According to BDAG 64 s.v. ἀναιρέω, “The pap. exx. involve exposed children taken up and reared as slaves…The rendering ‘adopt’ lacks philological precision and can be used only in a loose sense (as NRSV), esp. when Gr-Rom. terminology relating to adoption procedures is taken into account.” In this instance both the immediate context and the OT account (Exod 2:3-10) do support the normal sense of the English word “adopt,” although it should not be understood to refer to a technical, legal event.

[7:21]  ⁵ tn Or “and reared him” (BDAG 74 s.v. ἀνατρέφω b).

[12:13]  ⁶ tn Or “responded.”