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Acts of the Apostles — IRENT Readers Edition

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Markers used in Paulos’ journeys

 sail out
 beginning a sea voyage
 ship landing
 last port of call during the journey
 on foot
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[The New Covenant in Yeshua the Mashiah]

Vol. I Gospels & Acts

No. 5

The Acts of the Apostles

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Contents

Contents

Prequel: Ending of G-Luke

Part I (Ch. 1– 11) With Yerusalem Church
Part II (Ch. 12 – 16) With Paulos’ mission

A Publication Notice
Overview/Outlines/Acrostic Bible
Appendix
Prequel: Ending of G-Luke

Committed Disciples 24:44-54

Lk: 24:44-49 (cf. Mt +28:18-20;//Mk +16:15-18) Commission to the Disciples

24:44
And He said to them,
“These are my words which I spoke to yoů,
while I was still with yoů:
— that it is necessary for all the things to be fulfilled,
which are written about me
in the Torah of Moses and the Nevi'ima and the Psalms.”
24:45
Then He opened up their mind
so that they could understand the Tanakh Scripture;
24:46
and He said to them,
“thus it is written [in the TaNaKh Scripture]{/mss}
that the Mashiah must suffer
and rise up from among the dead on the third day;
24:47
and that turning the hearts to God’s way
for {/mss} forgiveness of sins
should be proclaimed in His name
to all the nations, beginning from Yerusalem.
24:48
Yoů are witnesses of these things.
24:49
And look¡ I, yes, I’m sending upon yoů
the promise [of holy spirit as gift] of my Father: [⇨Act 1:5, 8]
Yoů, though, are to remain in this City {of Yerusalem}
until yoů become clothed with power from on high.”

Lk 24:50-52 {//Mk 16:19; //Acts 1:9-11,12} Ascension

24:50
And He led them out as far as Bethany
and He lifted up His hands and gave them blessed words.
24:51
And as giving them blessed words, He departed from them
{
and was carried up [by the angels] to the heaven.}
24:52
And they, {having prostrated to Him},
returned to Yerusalem with great joy.
Lk 24:53 {//Mk 16:19} (cf. Acts 1:3; 13:31) Closing Remark
24:53
And afterwards, when attending together in the Miqdash court,
at all their time [of prayer-calls]
they were praising {and giving blessed to} the Elohim. {Amen.}

a 24:44 the Nevi'im ░░ /> the Prophets; [Heb. = the (Books of) Prophets (of the Hebrew Scripture)];
Acts - PART I

The Acts of the Apostles a

Yerusalem Mission – Ch. 2 – Ch. 7

Samaritan Mission – 8:4-25
Judean Mission – 8:26-40; 9:32 – 11:18
Mission beyond Palestine – Ch. 13 – Ch. 28

Part 1

Chs. 1 – 12

I. Chs. 1-7 Witnessing of Mashian Community in preparation

1:1 – 2:13 A. The preparation and empowerment

2:14 – 7:60 B. Yerusalem Community

II. Chs. 8-12 Witnessing of Mashian Community from Yerusalem

8:1 – 40 A. Persecution leads Philips to preach in Samaria

9:1 – 9:30 B. Persecution leads to conversion & call of Paulos
9:30 – 12:25 C. To Judea and Samaria

a
Acts of the Apostles – Acts of God in holy spirit through the Apostles after death-resurrection-ascension of
Yeshua the Mashiah.
(Acts 1)

Introduction
1:1-2 Introduction

1:1 The earlier writing of the narrative account I have produced, a

my dear Theophilus, b

concerned itself with everything Yeshuac set out 17

to do and to teach, [⇨28:31]

1:2
until the day that he was taken up [+]d
[⇦Lk 24:49]
after having shown them through holy spirite
what they should be doing soon
to the apostlesf whom he had chosen.

a
1:1 earlier writing ~ ░░ [= Gospel of Luke]
b
1:1 Theophilus ░░ [= Lk 1:3; Gk. ‘who dearly loves God’]
c 1:17 Yeshua ░░ [Heb. 'salvation, deliverance'] [a short form of a common theophoric Hebrew name Yehoshua (‘Yah is
Salvation’)]; /Gk. Iēsous; /Iesus – KJV 1611, Latin; /Jesus – English, French, Spanish, etc.;
d
1:1 taken up [+] ░░ [+ into the heaven] [from v. 11; cf. Lk 24:51] [dual sense of ‘heaven’ and ‘sky’
e
1:1 through holy spirit ░░ [Gk. dia pneumatos hagiou – ‘by means of holy spirit, that is, God’s spirit.]
f
1:2 apostles ░░ [not in the hierarchical sense as suggested by the term ‘apostleship’ as such, but of
missionary character with a commissioned task. Depending on the context, it also refers to other than the
original Twelve apostles. e.g. 14:4, 14. See GG]
Presence of the risen Lord in person
1:3-8 holy spirit promised
1:3 a
To whom he also showed himself to these apostles,
as the living One [having been raised to Life]
after his suffering [unto death on the Cross],
by many irrefutable proofs of it,
having himself be seenb to them over a period of forty days, [⇨1:15a ⇨2:1]
and telling the things concerning the Kingdom reign of the Elohim.
1:4
And, while being together {/mss}c with them,
he ordered them not to leave Yerusalem
but remain there and
“Wait for what Father has promised to be fulfilled
about which yoů all have heard from me: [⇦Lk 24:49; Jn 14:16; 20:22, 26]
1:5
Yohanand indeed immersed [people] in water [for purification]e;
but [now] as for yoů all
it is in holy spirit that yoů shall be immersed
not many days from now.” [⇦Lk 24:49; ⇨Act 2:4, 38]
1:6
So, when they had come together,
they began to ask him,
saying
“Masterf! Is it at this time you are to restore
the sovereign Kingdom rule to Yisrael?”
1:7
And he said to them,
 “No, it is not yoůrs to be concerned about dates and timesg,
which the Father has set by His own authority.
1:8
However, yoů shall receive power,
when the [promised gift of] holy spirith comes upon yoů [⇨2:4] [Jn 7:39; 14:26]
and yoů shall be witnesses of me {/mss}
both [here] in Yerusalem as well as in all JUDEA [Cf. Rev 11:3]
and Samaria
— yes, to the far ends upon the earth.”

a 1:3 showed himself to ░░ (paristēmi); />/presented himself to;

b 1:3 had himself be seen ░░ (optanomai); /> appear;
c 1:4 being together {/mss} ░░ {/having meal together}{/staying together}
d 1:5 Yohanan ░░ [the Immerser. Cf. Yohan, the Apostle]; /> John;
e 1:4 for purification ░░ [i.e. = from repentance]
f 1:5 Master ░░ /> Lord; [IRENT uses the translation word ‘Lord’ applied to Yeshua, only after His ascension and

glorification (v. 9) and the Shavuot (> Pentecost) event (Act 2).
g 1:8 dates and times ░░ [Gk. chronos + kairos]
h 1:8 the [promised gift] holy spirit ░░ /xx: the Holy Ghost – KJV; [the holy spirit, the gift, is something to do with

God's power, not 'active force', the power of God in act.] [Cf. ‘the holy Spirit’ which is God in action in power]
Yeshua’s ascension to the Father
1:9-11 Ascension to the Father
1:9 And after Yeshua had spoken these words,
he was lifted up, as they were looking,
and a cloud caught him out of their sight.
1:10
And while they were looking on into the heaven
as he was on his way up,
look¡ two men stood by them dressed in white;
1:11
who said,
<Yoů Galileans¡
why are yoů standing here, looking on into the sky?
This very Yeshua, who has been taken up from yoů into the heaven,
so shall also come just as the sure fact
as yoů have seen his going up into the heaven.>
Apostles gathered
1:12-14 Eleven apostles gathered in the upstairs room
1:12
Then they returned to Yerusalem
from Mount of Olive-grove, as it is called,
a place which is near Yerusalem [to east]
— only a sabbatha day's journey away.b
1:13@
And when they entered, they went up into the upper roomc,
where they had been staying;
They were [Cf. Mt 10:2-4; Mk 3:16-19; Lk 6:14-16]
●-Kefad
● and Yohan
● and Yaakob
● and Andrew;

● Philip and
● Thomas,
● Bartholomew and
● Mattithyahue,

● Yaakob the son of Alphaeus and

● Shimonf the Zealot;
[Lk 6:16; Jn 14:22]
● and Yehudahg the son of Yaakob.

1:14
All these were devoted in one mind with prayer and supplicationh
● together with some women, also Mariami the mother of Yeshua
● and together with the brothers of Yeshua. j

a
1:12 sabbath ░░ [on Day 7 of the lunar week – for daytime only];
b
1:12 a sabbath day′s journey away ░░ [2000 cubits – distance permitted to travel on sabbath Exo 16:29;
about 0.57 mile; a little over 10 min walk.]
c
1:12 upper room ░░ [huperōon - a roof-top room of a house of the well-to-do] [cf. the Cenacle’ (> Latin
cenaculum) – the traditional site of the Last Supper.]
d
1:12ff Kefa ░ /> Peter; [Gk. Petros is a Greek translation word. He was not called ‘*Peter’.] [Andrew his
brother was not paired here with Kefa, unlike the Synoptic list of the Twelve.]
e
1:13 Mattithyahu ░░ [Hebrew name – ‘gift of Yah’] /Gk. Matthaios; /> Matthew – most;
f
1:13ff Shimon ░░ [Hebrew name] /> Simon;
g
1:13 Yehudah ░░ /> Yudah; /x: Judas – most; [To distinguish among many, ‘Judas’ as in KJV is the name
retained in IRENT only for ‘Judas Iscariot’.]
h 1:14 supplication ░░ [not same as ‘*prayer’.]
i 1:14 Mariam ░░ [in Aramaic and Gk; common name of unclear origin. Mary - English; Maria - Latin] [She was in
her teen, usual age of marriage in that society.] [Not from Davidic line (Tribe of Yehudah) but from Tribe of Levi. (Lk
1:5 her being a relative of Elisheba > Elizabeth)] /Mary – most; /Miryam – JNT; /
j
1:14 brothers of Yeshua ░░ [+including Yaakob (12:17)] [not ‘his half-brothers’]
Matthias chosen
1:15-26 Choosing Matthias
1:15 [⇨2:1] [cf. Lk 24:53]
And it was during those days that Kefa stood up
to speak in the midst of the fellow brethren {/mss}a
((— the whole company of persons who gathered together
was about a hundred and twenty.))
And this is what he said:
1:16
“Gentlemen, fellow brothers! it was necessary that
the scripture passage [in TaNaKh] should be fulfilled, [v.20]
which the Spirit of Holiness forewarned by the mouth of David
concerning [what would fall on] Judasb,
((the one who became a guide
for those who came to arrest Yeshua,))
1:17
because he had been numbered among us,
being chosen to have his part in this ministry.
1:18
((As yoů know [this refers to what happened]: [Mt 27:7-10]

It is from the act of this very Judas

a field became to be acquiredc
with the payoff of his unrighteousness,
and, [afterwards, he went away to hang himself,] falling down flat in prone,
his body got burst in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
1:19
And it became known to all the dwellers in Yerusalem;
so that in their own language that field was called Akeldama, d
that is, the ‘Field of Blood-money’.))
1:20
It is, in fact, written in the book of Psalms,
<Let his dwelling-place become deserted
and let there be no one dwell in it>:{Psa 69. 25}
and, <As for His office of overseeing — let someone else take.> {Psa 109:8}
1:21
Therefore,
as we have here men those who have accompanied with us
during all the time
the Lord Yeshua went in and went out among us,
1:22
— beginning from His receiving the immersion from Yohanan,
until the day that He was taken up from us —
it is necessary that
one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”⌂

a 1:15 fellow brethren {/mss} ░░ {/disciples}

b 1:16 Judas ░░ [To distinguish among many with same Hebrew name, only ‘Judas’ is retained in IRENT only for
Judas Iscariot.]
c 1:18 was acquired ░░ [Gk. ‘this one acquired’, i.e. Judas – metonymic for the money he got.]
d 1:19 Akeldama ░░ [located in the Hinnom Valley (‘Gehenna’), south of Yerusalem running W to E to Kidron Valley]
1:23
And they put up two,
Yosef, so-called BarSabbas, ((who was surnamed Justus))
and Matthiasa.
1:24
And they prayed,
“You, O Lord,b
know everyone’s heart [what we have in mind] –
Show which one of these two you have chosen
1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship
which Judas abandoned to go on
to the place marked out for him.”
1:26
And they drew names between them, and it went to Matthias,
and he was counted along with the eleven apostles.

a
1:23 Matthias ░░ [Heb. Mattithyahu, which is the same for Matthew (aka Levi) (Mt 9:9, etc.) and
Mattathias (Lk 3:25, 26)]
b
1:24 O Lord ░░ (7:60); [Gk. kurie – anarthrous vocative; anaphorically to ‘Lord Yeshua’ in the preceding
v. 21, rather than in the sense of ‘Adonai’ (for the anarthrous nominative kurios); /x: O Jehovah – NWT;
<YERUSALEM MISSION>

Yerusalem Mission – Ch. 2 – Ch. 7

(Acts 2)

2:1-2:47 Shavuot
– Gospel proclaimed to people of Diaspora

Shavuot (‘Pentecost’)
2:1-4a Coming of the promised gift of holy spirit
2:1@
And the day of ☼Shavuota finally arrived. [Lev 23:15-22; ☼Deu 16:9-10]
All {the apostles} [← 1:26] gathered together {/mss} as one.
2:2
There suddenly came from the heaven
a sound as of blowing of a mighty wind;
the sound to fill up the whole House [of Elohim] b
in which they were sitting.
2:3
And before their eyes
appeared something like tongues of fire, being split off
— which came to settle
above each one of the apostles.
2:4a
And they were all filled
with [the promised gift of] holy spirit. [← 1:5; cf. Mt 3:11] [cf. Gen 2:7]

a 2:1 Shavuot ░░ [Gk. Pentecost] [A Hebrew feast (day), not 'festival'. The Day of the Giving of the Torah]; [counting
from Abib 16 for 7 full weeks + 50 days to fall in the 4th month for the summer wheat harvest.] [the traditional
Pentecost in the 3rd month Sivan (always on 6th day) for the spring wheat harvest, counting 50 days from Abib 16.]
b 2:4 the House ░░ (oikos) [of the Elohim, on the Mishkan (> Temple) Mount] [Often conflated with ‘the upper

room’ huperōon (1:12), the place for the Last Supper of the Lord.]
2:4b-2:13 Diaspora Yehudim hearing in their own languagesa
2:4b
And the apostles began to speak [+ about the great things Elohim has done] [2:11]
[for the diverse people of Diaspora to heard and understand] [= v.11; cf. v. 6]
in different languagesb [of people gathered there] [→ Act 10:46; 19:6] [← Mk 16:17; Mt 10:6]
as the Spiritc was granting them
to speak out and declare [the Gospel message] boldly. d
2:5
as there sojourning in Yerusalem
were devout Yehudim [of Diaspora]
[visiting on pilgrim for the Festival]
from every country [in the Roman Empire] under the heaven.
2:6
And when this sound [+from the place of the Apostles] came out
and reached their ears,
the multitude gathered around
and became bewildered over how they could [somehow] hear
in his own dialecte as the apostles speaking. [cf. v. 4; v. 11]
2:7
Indeed the people were {all} astonished and began to wonder, saying
“Look¡ here, all these guys — speaking [like that]!
but [obviously] they are [plain] Galileans, aren’t they?
2:8
How is it, then, that
we [+the Diaspora Yehudim] are hearing
— each in our own native dialect from where we were born?
2:9
— Parthians, and
Medes, and Elamites;
and those dwelling in MESOPOTAMIA,
JUDEA and CAPPADOCIA,
PONTUS, and Proconsular ASIA,
2:10
PHRYGIA and PAMPHYLIA,
EGYPTf and the parts of LIBYA toward Cyrene;
and the visitors from Rome
– both Yehudim and even proselytes to Yehudism,
2:11
Crete, and ARABIA!
How is it that we all hear as in our own tongues
when these men say
as they tell about the great things the Elohim has done?!”[=v.4b; v. 6]

a 2:4bff <Hearing in their own dialects> ░░ [On Shavuot the Apostles, eyewitnesses of the Risen Lord (2:32), went
out and began proclaiming the Good News, speaking in all languages, being able to manifest to all, by the power of
the Holy Spirit, their living faith in the Risen Lord.] [Cf. 1Co 14:22 – ‘speaking in (foreign) languages’ is a sign to the
unbelievers to hear and understand the Gospel message;] [not cultic shamanic babbling Glossolalia ‘tongue-speaking’
of Pentecostal charismatics who mix the whole of this section vv. 4-13 into 1Co 14:2-33.]
b 2:6 languages ░░ (syn. with dialects); /x: tongues;
c 2:6 the Spirit ░░ [capitalized for the arthrous noun standing alone, usually personified.] [= the Spirit of the Elohim;

not 'God the Spirit']

d 2:6 Gospel messages ░░ [It has nothing to do with a gift of the ‘Holy Ghost’.]
e
2:6 dialect ░░ [of the common language Koine Greek after Alexander the Great’s conquest]
f 2:10 Egypt ░░ [A Roman Province since BC 30 after its last Ptolemy dynasty (under Ptolemy XV co-ruled with his

mother Cleopatra VII).] [Heb. Mitsrayim (as in Act 7:9ff)]

2:12
Yes, they were all astonished
and were [now] perplexed,
saying to each other,
“What on earth going on here with all this?”
2:13
There were others, however, who jeered at them, saying
“They’ve got filled up with too much of new-wine!” a

Kefa's Address
2:14-47 Kefa’s preaching to his own Yehudim
2:14 But Kefa, standing up there with the Eleven, began
in a loud and clear voice to address to them [2:6] these words:
“Men of JUDEA
— also all staying here in Yerusalem!
Get this clear to yoů!
pay attention to what I’m going to say, please!
2:15
These people are, the fact is, not drunken, as yoů think;
— yoů see, it’s only third hourb in the day! [≈ 8 to 9 a.m.]
2:16
But here is what has been spoken
through the prophet Yoel {Joel 2:28-32a LXX}:
2:17
And it will be in the last days, says the Elohim,
<cI’ll pour out [a share] of My spirit
upon yoů all flesh-and-bloodd mortal beings
and yoůr sons and yoůr daughters will prophesy
and yoůr young men will see visions
and yoůr old men will dream dreams.
2:18
And in fact, even on My servants
and on My maiden servants
in those days I will pour out of My spirit, [⇨v. 33]
and they will prophecy.
2:19
And I will spread wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below;
blood and fire and smoke;
2:20
the sun shall be turned dark
and the moon red as bloode [Rev 6:12b; cf. Mt 2:29]
before the Day of Adonaif comes,
the great and notable day.

a 2:14 new-wine ░░ [Shavuot falls in the harvest season for summer (emmer) wheat, grapes, etc.]
b 2:15ff hour ░░ [+ hour-period on sundial] [w/ 12 periods in a day time. Not o’clock.] [third hour-period – the time
of the morning prayer/sacrifice at the Miqdash]
c 2:17 I’ll poor out <verse> ░░ [the preceding v. in O.T. Joel 2:27 “You will know that I am present in Israel and that

I am YHWH your Elohim and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.”]
d 2:17 flesh-and-blood mortal beings ░░ \ (epi) pasan sarka; /≈ everyone; /x: all flesh – KJV; [not ‘all people’ ‘all

mankind’ ‘all humanity’ ‘every kind of people’ or ‘every sort of flesh’.] [See in BW.]
e 2:20 sun ~ dark ░░ [i.e. solar eclipse]; moon ~ red as blood ░░ [= ‘blood moon’, i.e. lunar eclipse]
f 2:20, 21 Adonai ░░ [= YHWH] /the LORD – LXX; (Yahueh; Yahweh; /x: Jehovah); [Cf. ‘the Adonai’ 2:26]
 2:21
And it shall come to pass that
whosoever calls on the name of Adonai
shall be rescueda.>[v. 21b //Rm 10:13]

2:22 “Men of Israel!

Hear these words [from me]:
Yeshua the Nazarene,
a man shown forth by the Elohim to yoů as what He truly was,
through mighty works and portents and signs
which the Elohim wrought through Him in yoůr midst,
just-as yoů yourselves also well know
2:23
this One – the very Yeshua – who was given over
— and that happened in accordance with the definite plan
and foreknowledge of the Elohim —
yoů had Him {taken and} fastened [onto a wooden stake]b
in the hands of those outside the Torah,
and had Him put to death:
2:24
But the Elohim raised Him up to Life,
having loosed ☼the ropesc of death
since it was not possible for Him to be held in the power of it.

2:25
“dIndeed, it was [as to be seen] in allusion to the Mashiah
— we should grasp this point! —
that David says [as for himself],{Psa 16:8-11}[⇨v. 31; Act 13:35]

<I’ve set the Adonaie always before my eyes;

Because He is at my right side
I shall not be shaken.
2:26
This is why my heart has rejoiced
and my tongue has been full of exultation.

Yes, and my mortal body of flesh too will have

a sure hope [of being raised to Life] in which it can rest;
2:27
Because you will not abandon my soul to Hades in death,
Neither will you let your loyal one get decayed off. [2:31]
2:28
You made known the ways of Life to me.
You shall fill me with joy by your presence.>

a 2:21 rescued ░░ /x: saved; [+ from the coming Days of YHWH]. [OT text continues to read ‘in the Mount Zion and
Yerusalem be deliverance as YHWH has said, yes, in the remnants whom YHWH has called.’]
b 2:23 wooden-stake ░░ (Gk. xulon /x: tree Act 5:30; 10:39; 13:29) (Cf. stauros ‘execution stake’, ‘Cross’ as a symbol)
c 2:24 ropes ░░ (Gk. ōdin ‘birth pain’) [emended based on Aramaic. - fig. of ‘holding power’ – Cf. ‘ropes of sheol’ in

2Sam 22:6; Psa 18:5; 116:3]; /pangs – ASV, ESV; /x: pains – KJV etc.; /x: agony – NIV; /
d 2:25-35 <verses> ░░ [with Kefa’s own midrash on the David’s Psalm.]
e 2:25 the Adonai ░░ [= YHWH in MT] /> the Lord;
 2:29
“My fellow brethren!
Please, if I may say this openly to yoů
about this very patriarch David …
((Yes, it is a fact that he died and was entombed
and his tomb is with us to this day.))
2:30
Being a prophet, thus,
• having known that the Elohim ☼had sworn to him an oath
to seat one {±}a from among his descendants
upon his own throne, {☼Psa 132:11}
2:31
• foreseeing [the reality of] it,
David did [actually] speak of the resurrection of the Mashiah
when saying [as for David himself] that [←v. 25]
he {mss}b was ☼not to be abandoned there in Hades,
nor did his flesh get decayed off. [←2:27]{Lk 24:46; ☼ Psa 16:10}

2:32
It is this very Yeshua that the Elohim raised Him up to Life
— of this we are all witnesses.
2:33
Having been thus exalted
to the right of the Elohim [cf. Isa 53:1 ‘arm/power of YHWH’]
and, having received from the Father, [cf. Jn 14:16]
Hex has poured out this promised [gift of] holy spirit [=v. 4b; ⇦v. 18;⇨v. 38]
— this is what yoů see and hear today!
2:34
In fact, David who did not ascend into the heavens,
himself says: {Psa 110:1}c
<Adonaid said to my mastere, “Be you seated at my right,
2:35
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”…>
2:36
With certainty, therefore, let it be known,
to the whole House of Israel
that the man whom the Elohim has made both ‘Lord’f and ‘Mashiah’
is the very Yeshua
— yoů [of the ruling authority] had Him crucified.g”

2:37 Now when they heard this, they were stabbed in their heart [and terrified]
and said to Kefa and the rest of the apostles,
“Fellow men, yoů brethren, what must we do?”

a 2:30 <±mss> ░░ (in TR) {± according to the flesh He would raise up the very Mashiah}
b 2:31 He ░░ {/His soul} [‘his soul’ = ‘his being’, not a disembodied spirit, ghost, or ‘immortal soul’.]
c 2:34 <verse> ░░ {Psa 110:1} [quoted also in Mt 22:24; //Mk 12:36; //Lk 20:42-3.] /> my lord; /x: my Lord;
d 2:34 Adonai ░░ = YHWH in MT [Gk. anarthrous kurios ‘LORD’ in OT translation]
e 2:34 my master ░░ [arthrous Gk. = Heb. adoni (not Adonai = Elohim)] [= King David – Psa 110:1, quoted in Mt

22:43 //Mk 12:36 //Lk 20:42]; /my lord; /x: my Lord; [Cf. Psa 16:1 ‘I said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord’ (ASV).]
f 2:36 Lord ░░ [as to a king, not to a God]; /x: LORD (- KJV in O.T. English for YHWH).
g 2:36 you have Him crucified ░░ />> you have crucified him; [they themselves had no power to execute Him. Cf.

Christian anti-Semitic slur ‘Christ-killer’.]

2:38
And Kefa said to them,
“Turn yoůr heart to God's waya [3:19; 26:20]
 — yes, each one of yoů [who had turned] get immersed [→2:41; cf. Mk 1:4b]
on [the basis of]b the name of Yeshua the Mashiah — [←2:21]
[That way, yoů are to be led]
intoc forgiveness of sins {of yoů} [received]
and yoů shall have the freely given gift given to yoů,
that is, the [promised] holy spirit. [=2:4b; ←2:33; cf. 10:44]
2:39
Yoů see, it is to yoů the promise belongs — and to yoůr children;
and indeed to all those, however afar off,
whom Adonai our Elohim will call to Himself.”
2:40
And with many other words he testified and encouraged them, saying
“Get yourselves kept safe away from this crooked generation!”
2:41
Then those who gladly received his word received immersion,
And on that day about three thousand souls was added.
2:42
And they continued placing themselves faithfully
▪ to the teaching of the Apostles [5:42]
▪ to the fellowship of participating Life together
▪ to the breaking of their breadd
▪ and to the prayers [to Elohim]. [v. 46]

2:43 And awe-struck were every soul

as many wonders and signs occurred through the apostles.
2:44
And all those who became believers
were together in having all things common.
2:45
They sold from their properties and goods
and divided them to all as anyone had need.
2:46
And every day they continued steadfastly with one accord
gathering together [at the prayer call] in the Miqdash court;
They had ‘breaking bread’ at their house [of meeting],
sharing meals with joyfulness and generous heart,
2:47
As they were bringing praise the Elohim,
they found favor with all the people
while day by day the Lord kept adding to them {/mss}e
those getting saved.

a 2:38 turn your heart ░░ (→God changes the heart); /> *repent (a religious jargon with different nuance, sense, and
usage). not ‘feel remorse’; ‘regret’; or ‘repair’ ‘fixing’]
b 2:38 (immersed) on the basis of the name ░░ Gk. epi ~ [Cf. ‘immersed in the name of’ ; ‘immersed into the name

of’ – See BW ‘in the name of’]

c 2:38 into receiving remission ░░ Gk. eis aphesin; /x: for remission of ( - wrong sense of ‘in order to receive); /x: so

that ~ will be forgiven – CEV; /

d 2:43 breaking of their bread ░░ (Same in 20:7 and Lk 24:30. Cf. Lk 22:19) [Hebrew idiom – having a meal together

in the setting of agape-meal (Cf. Yeshua’s ‘I am the bread’ – Jn 6:48ff.). Not related to annual observance of the Lord’s
Supper (1Co 10:16).]
e 2:47 to them {/mss}░░ - most ; /to their number; {/to the Mashian Community – /church - KJV, NKJV}
(Acts 3)
Act 3:1-10 Kefa and Yohan heal a crippled at the Miqdash
3:1 Now Kefa and Yohan were going up into the Miqdash court
in the hour of [priest’s] prayer — ninth hour-period. a {Psa 55:17} [≈ 3 p.m.]
3:2
And a certain man who was lame with crippled legs from birth
was used be carried up there by others
This man would be put daily at a gate of the Miqdash
which is called ‘Beautiful Gate’,
there to beg for gifts-of-mercy
from those entering into the Miqdash court.
3:3
He, seeing Kefa and Yohan about to go into the Miqdash,
began begging to get gifts of mercy.
3:4
And Kefa along with Yohan, watched him carefully, and said,
“Look at us in the face.”
3:5
And he having eyes on them,
expecting to get something from them.
3:6
Kefa said, however,
“Silver and gold I have none . . .
but what I do have —
that I am giving yoů
in the name of Yeshua the Mashiah, the Nazorean —
I say <Get up and walk on your feet!>”
3:7
And Kefa taking him by the right hand
and lifted him up.
All at once
strength came to his feet and his ankles.
3:8
And leaping up, he stood and began to walk,
and he entered with them into the Miqdash,
walking and leaping and praising the Elohim.
3:9
And all the people saw him walking and praising the Elohim.
3:10
And they took knowledge of him,
that it was the one
who sat for gifts-of-mercy at the Beautiful Gate of the Miqdash,
and they were filled with amazement and astonishment
at what had happened to him.

Act 3:11-26 Kefa Addresses the Crowd

3:11
And as the lame man who had been healed
was holding on to Kefa and Yohan,
all the people ran together to them
in what was called Solomon's Colonnade, utterly-amazed.
3:12
And when Kefa saw it, he addressed these words to the people,

a 3:1 in the hour ~ ninth hour-period ░░ [a period on sundial, 1/2 of day time.]
 “Israelites,
why do yoů marvel at this man?
Or why do yoů stare at us,
as though it were by some power or godliness of our very own
that we had enabled him to walk?
3:13
[Yoů-all should know this:] the Elohim of Abraham
and {the Elohim} of Isaaca and {the Elohim} of Yaakob
— the Elohim of our fathers —
has ☼glorified His servantbYeshua;
whom yoů delivered up
and disowned before the presence of Pilate.
(3:14)
Even when Pilate had decided to release Him,
yoů, however,
3:14
disowning the Holy and Righteous One,
demanded that, instead, a man who was man of bloodc
be released as a favor to yoů;
3:15
thus yoů put to death the Source and Giver of Lifed
the very One whom the Elohim raised to Life from among the dead
— a circumstance and fact of which we ourselves are witnesses.
3:16
No, [it’s not our power or godliness.] It is because of putting faith
in the very name of Yeshua,
that this [lame] man,
whom yoů are seeing here and yoů whom recognize,
has been given strength by virtue of that name;
yes, it is this man’s faith, rooted in Yeshua,
that restored him to full strength as all of yoů can see.
3:17
And now brethren, I know that
what yoů have done has been done in ignorance
as yoůr rulers did.
3:18
But the Elohim fulfilled what He had fully announced in advance
through the mouth of all the prophets
— that His Mashiah should suffer.
3:19
So then, come to turn yoůr heart to God's waye
and turn back [=26:20; cf.2:38]
to get yoůr sins blotted out,
(3:20)
so-that appointed times of refreshing shall come
from the face of the Adonai;
3:20
and He shall send the Yeshua as Mashiah
who has been appointed beforehand for yoů:

a
3:13 Isaac ░░ [Heb. Yitzchak]
b
3:13 servant ░░ (Gk. pais); /x: child; /Son – KJV; /
c
3:14 man of blood ░░ (as of an assassin, rebel, or insurrectionist) - BBE; /killer; /murderer – most; /
d
3:15 the Source and Giver of Life ░░ (archeos ~); /Prince of Life; /Originator of Life – NET; /one who leads people to Life; /the
Source from whom Life flows out – ARJ; /
e 3:19 turn one’s heart to God’s way ░░ (→ God will change one’s heart); /> *repent;
 3:21
whom the heaven must receive
until the times all things are restored,
things which the Elohim has spoken of
through the mouth of the {/mss} His holy prophets
{from ages past}.
3:22
Moses indeed said,
☼<Adonai Elohim{/mss}a will raise up for yoů a prophet like myself,

taken from among yoůr own brethren;

Yoů will listen to and obey him
in all things whatever he speaks to yoů. [also 7:37]{☼Deu 18:15, 18f LXX}
3:23
And it will be,
that every soul whoever does not listen to that prophet,
shall be utterly rooted out from among the people.> {Lk 23:29}
3:24
Yes and all the prophets from Samuel
and those who followed afterwards,
as many as have spoken,
they also told of these days.
3:25
Yoů are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant
which the Elohim covenanted with yoůr fathers,
saying to Abraham, {Gen. 22:18,26:4, 28:14}
<And in your descendants
will all the families of the land get blessed words.>

3:26
It is to yoů especially that,
after having raised up His servant/child {Yeshua} to Life,[2:24]
the Elohim sent Him to give yoů blessed words by turning every one of yoů
from yoůr evil ways.”[cf. 3:22; cf. 3:19 ‘turn to’] ⌂

(Acts 4)
4:1 And while Kefa and Yohan were still addressing to the people,
there suddenly landed upon them —
a pack of priests and the captain of the Miqdash guard and some Sadducees!
4:2
These got greatly provoked
because they were teaching the people
and because they were announcingb
– on the basis of the very Yeshua [for their argument] –
the resurrection from amoung the dead.
4:3
They seized and put Kefa and Yohan under guard until the next day
since it was already evening.
4:4
((However, as for those who had listened to the message,
many came to believe;
and the number of the men happened to be about five thousand.))

a 3:22 Adonai Elohim {/mss} ░░ /= LORD God; {/LORD our/yoůr God} [Cf. LORD your God – LXX Deu 18:15]
b
4:2 announcing ░░ - NET; /proclaiming – most; /xxx: preaching – KJV;
4:5
On the next day, on their part,
the Sanhedrin members and the Elders and the soferim
were gathered together in Yerusalem [at the Sanhedrin Hall] [v. 15]
[+over such a dead serious development];
4:6
also assembled there were Hannana, [former] High Priest, and Kayafab,
and Yohananc, and Alexander,
and all the rest belonging to the high priest’s family.
4:7
And, having [+ along with the lame man who got healed] [v. 10]
brought out Kefa and Yohan to stand in their midst,
they began to inquire,
“By what sort of power or in what sort of name,
did yoů all [blatantly] do this?”
4:7
And, having Kefa and Yohan stand in their midst, they began to inquire,
“By what power or in whose name,
did yoů [blatantly] do this?”
4:8
Then Kefa, filled with holy spirit, said to them,

“Leaders of the people and Elders!

4:9
Are we being interrogated today over the matter
of what we did good to an infirm man?
By whom was this very man saved to be made whole?
4:10
Well then!
Let it be known to yoů all and to all the people of Israel
that this has been accomplished
in the very named of Yeshua the Mashiah, the Nazorean,
whom yoů crucified,
whom the Elohim raisede from among the dead.
It is on his account that this man is able to stand here
before yoů as healthy and well as yoů see!
4:11
This Yeshua is ☼the stone-block rejected by yoů the builders,
that has become the cornerstone.
4:12
And indeed, in no one else
there is such salvationf [from the Elohim] to be found,
for there is no other name under the heaven [beside his] [cf. Phi 2:9]
that has been given among mortal humans
by which we mustg get saved.” ◊

a 4:6 Hannan ░░ /Annas, Gk Hannas; [father-in-law of Caiaphas] [Also Lk 3:2; Jn 18:13, 24] [Cf. Others of similar
name (Gk. Hananias) - (1) Hananyah the High Priest in 23:2; 24:1. (2) ill-fated one in 5:1 ff (rendered as ‘Ananias’)
and (2) one of learners (believers) in 9:10 ff.]
b 4:6 Kayafa ░░ /Caiaphas;
c 4:6 Yohanan ░░ [different one from Yohan the Immerser]; /x: John;
d 4:10 in the name of ░░ [i.e. in the authority and power of]
e 4:10 Elohim raised ░░ [that Yeshua rose to Life.]
f 4:12 salvation ░░ [meaning of the name ‘Yeshua’ = Yah is salvation; not even concept is in any religion.]
g 4:12 must get saved ░░ [dei – ‘is necessary’] /> must be saved; /x: can be saved;
4:13
Now when they saw boldness of Kefa and Yohan in speaking out,
who were, as they could see,
obviously uneducated and ordinary men,
And they came to recognize them as men — no doubt about it —
who had been with Yeshua.
4:14
And seeing the very man who was healed standing there with them,
they had nothing to speak against it.
4:15
However, they conferred with one another,
having ordered the apostles to leave the council chamber,
4:16
saying
“What are we to do with these men?
The fact is,
indeed a remarkable sign that has come about through them
is plain to all who dwell in Yerusalem,
and simply we cannot deny it.
4:17
Still, in order to keep this
from spreading further among the people,
let us sternly warn them to speak out
no more upon the basis of this name to anyone.”
4:18
And they called them back and gave them strict order
not to speak out or to teach on the basis of the name of Yeshua.
4:19
But in reply Kefa and Yohan said to them,
“Whether it is right in the sight of the Elohim
that we should listen to yoů rather than to the Elohim,
yoů can judge for yourselves;
4:20
Yet, as far as we are concerned, it is impossible that
we should not speak out what we have seen and heard.”
4:21
The authorities uttered further threats. Yet they let them go
since they were unable to come up as to how to punish them
because of the people who were all praising the Elohim
on account of what had happened
4:22
((By the way, the man, on whom this signa of healing occurred,
was over forty years old.))
4:23 And having being released, the apostles went home to their fellow believers
and reported all that the chief priests and the Elders had said to them.

a 4:22 sign ░░ (sēmeion) Cf. dunamis ‘mighty work’ > miracle); /miraculous sign – NET; /x: miracle – KJV;
4:24
And on hearing this,
they lifted up their voice to the Elohim with one mind, said
“O Sovereign Adonai!
You who made the heaven and the earth
and the sea and all that is in them:
4:25
who {through holy spirit},
by the mouth of {our father} David your servant, said,
<Why do the Gentiles rage
and the peoples plot futile things?
4:26
The rulers of the land stood up alongside
and the leaders were gathered together for the same purpose,
against the very Adonaia
and against His Anointed Oneb.>{Psa 2:1-2} [Lk 3:22; 4:16; Heb 1:9]
4:27
Indeed, truly {here in this City}
they have assembled themselves
for a plot against Your holy servantc/child Yeshua,
whom you have anointed as Mashiah.
There were both Herod Antipasd and Pontius Pilate,
with them the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
4:28
ready to do the very things Your hand and Your plan
had foreordained to take place.
4:29
And now, O Adonai¡
Take notice of their threats
and grant Your servants to speak out Your word with all boldness,
4:30
while you stretch out Your hand for the healing of people,
so that signs and wonders may take place
through the name of Your holy servante Yeshua.”

4:31
And when they had made supplication,
the place in which they were gathered together was shaken,
and they were all filled with holy spiritf
and they spoke the word of the Elohim with boldness.”
4:32
And the whole company of those who came to believe
were of one heart and soul
and not one of them said that anything belonging to him was his own;
but all things were common to them to share.
4:33
And with such great power
| the apostles kept giving their testimony
of the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua {Mashiah}
and, yes, God's great blessing was upon them all

a 4:26 the very Adonai ░░ (See 2:25 fn) [Gk. arthrous tou kuriou here refers to the Elohim]
b 4:26 His Anointed One ░░ [that is, His Mashiah (>Messiah)] /x: his Christ (- anachronistic).
c 4:27 servant ░░ (pais); /x: child – KJV;
d 4:27 Herod Antipas ░░ [of Yehudim of ruling authority against Yeshua, along with Pilate, only also in Lk 23:6ff.]
e 4:30 servant ░░ [Gk. paidon; same word Aramaic for child or servant.]
f 4:30 holy spirit ░░ {/mss} /the promised holy spirit; /x: the Holy Ghost – KJV; /the Holy Spirit – most;
4:34
— in fact, there was not even one in need among them anymore,
as was shown that all those
who have fields or houses in possession
would sell them and bring in what the things sold had fetched
4:35
and would lay them at the feet of the apostles
for its proceeds to be distributed to each as anyone had need.
4:36
So it was that Yosef, a Levite, a native of CYPRUS,
called by the apostles <BarNabba>
((which is, being translated, ‘Son of Encouragement’)),
4:37
sold a field that belonged to him
and brought the money to place at the apostles' feet. ⌂

(Acts 5)
5:1
Yet there was a certain man named Ananiasa, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a property,
5:2
and kept-back part of the proceeds for himself,
with his wife's knowledge as well,
and brought only a part and placed it at the apostles' feet.
5:3
But Kefa said,

“Ananias! how did you get the satan

to take{/mss}b control of your mind
and make you to cook up a falsehood
and cheat the Spirit of Holiness?
You've held back part of the proceeds from the sale of the land,
haven’t you?
5:4
Was it not all yours
so long as it remained as it was in your possession?
And even after it was sold, was it not perfectly yours to do with
in whichever way you pleased?
How could you have conceived in your mind
such an awful thing like this?
It is not men to whom you have told your lie:
but it is rather to the Elohim.
5:5
And when Ananias heard these words
he fell and dropped dead
and great fear came upon all who heard about it.
5:6
And the young men came in and removed him;
and they carried out and buried him.
5:7
And it came to pass after an interval of about three hours,
his wife also came in, not knowing what had happened.

a 5:1 Ananias ░░ Gk Hananias; [Rendered so to distinguish from another one with same name ‘Hananyah’ in 4:6ff]
b
5:3 take control of {/mss} ░░ {/hardened}
5:8
And Kefa answered to her,
“Tell me if two of yoů sold the land for this much.”

And she said, “Yes, for that much.”

5:9
But Kefa said to her,
“How is it that yoů two came to agree between yourselves
to put the Spirit of Adonaia [cf. 5:3] to test?
Listen, the footsteps of those who have buried your husband
are at the door and they will carry you away.”
5:10
And she fell down at Kefa’s feet, in an instant,
and gave up her soul
and the young men came in and found her dead
and they carried her away and buried her by her husband.
5:11
And great fear came upon the whole Apostolic Mashian Communityb
and upon all who heard these things.
5:12
And through the hands of the apostles
many signs and wonders were shown forth among the people,
and by common consent all the apostles were gathering together
in the Solomon's Colonnade.
5:13
Now no one of the rest had the courage to interfere with them;
but rather the people gave them high praise;
5:14
and, what’s more, a large number of men as well as women
were added to them as believers in the Lord;
5:15
so much so that they even carried the sick out into the street,
putting them on cots and pallets,
in the hope that, when Kefa was passing by,
at the least his shadow might fall upon some of them.
5:16
And the crowds gathered together also from the towns around Yerusalem,
bringing those sick and those afflicted by unclean spiritsc
— these were all healed.
5:17
But the High Priest rose up and all those who were with him
the men belonging to the Sadducean partyd — they were filled with envy.
5:18
They put their hands on the apostles
and placed them in the common jail.
5:19
However, during the night an angele of Adonai opened the prison doors
and brought them out, and said,

a
5:9 the spirit of Adonai ░░ (to pneuma kuriou) /of the LORD (=YHWH); /x: of the Lord – most;
b 5:11ff Apostolic Mashian Community ░░ /Messianic Community – JNT; /Church – most;
c 5:16 unclean spirits ░░ (also 8:7)[cf. evil spirits – 19:12, 13]
d 5:17 Sadducean party ░░ [religious faction in political power in the Second Temple period of Yehudism, colluding

with the Romans. Played the leading role to bring Yeshua to His execution. See BW.]
e 5:19 angel ░░ [20x in Acts. refers to ‘divine messenger’ (created spirit being).]
5:20
“Yoů go forth, take your stand in the Miqdash
and tell the people everything which concerns this new way of Life.”
5:21
And when they heard this, they went into the Miqdash
at early morning next day and began to teach.

Now when the High Priest and those who were with him arrived,
they summoned the Sanhedrin,
that is, the full assembly-of-elders of the Israelites,
and sent men to the prison-house to have the prisoners brought out.
5:22
However, when the officers came for them
they did not find the apostles in the prison.
And having return, they reported the matter
5:23
in these words,
“Well, sir, as for the prison-house we found it locked securely
and there were guards standing at the gates.
But, when we opened them, we found no one inside, sir.”
5:24
Thus heard these words
the captain of the Miqdash guard and the chief priests,
and they got perplexed
and were wholly at a loss as to what this could possibly mean.
5:25
But someone came and reported to them,
“Look¡ those men whom yoů put in prison
are standing in the Miqdash
and there nonchalantly teaching the people!”
5:26
At that the captain went off with the officers
and fetched the apostles,
but dared not to use any force, being afraid that
they themselves might get even stones thrown at
by the people who saw this not to be their liking.
5:27
And the apostles were brought in
and made to stand before the council.
There, the High Priest began his questioning them,
5:28
with these words:
“We have given yoů the strictest orders to desist from teaching
upon the basis of that man, {have we not?}
And look, yoů have blanketed Yerusalem
with a bunch of yoůr teaching stuff
and determined to bring the very blood of that man upon us!”
5:29
But Kefa and the apostles answered and said,
“We must obey Elohim rather than men.
5:30
the Elohim of our fore-fathers raised up Yeshua to Life,
whom, yoů slew, having hung up ☼on a wooden-stakea{☼Deu 21:22}
a 5:30 wooden-stake ░░ (‘tree’ - also 10:39; Gal 3:13; 1Pe 2:24) [Cf. Deu 21:22, but, there, ‘hanging on a tree’ is not
5:31
— the One whom the Elohim exalted to His right
as ‘Leader’ and ‘Savior’ —
to bring Israel to turn their hearts to God's waya
and receive forgiveness of sins
5:32
And we are witnesses of these things,
and so is the promised holy spirit whichb the Elohim has given
to those who obey Him.”
5:33
On hearing these words they got infuriated
and determined to bring them to death.
5:34
But someone stood up in the Sanhedrin council, — a Pharisee,
named Gamaliel, a Torah-teacher honored by all the people —
and ordered the men
to be put outside for a while.
5:35
And he said to the council,
“Yoů men of Israel!
Be careful what yoů are about to do to these men
5:36
Remember that some time ago rose up claiming to be somebody
a man called Theudasc to a revolt, [< 6 CE]
to whom a number of men, about four hundred,
joined themselves to his cause.
This man was killed [by Romans]
and all those following him was dispersed,
and nothing came of it.
5:37
After him rose up Yehudahd, a Galilean,
in the days of the registratione for census
and drew-off some people to follow after him:
he also perished [by the Romans],
and all those who were obeying him were scattered
[— + then turned into the Zealots].
5:38
And now I say this to yoů,
stay away from these men and leave them alone:
because if this plan or this working be of men,
it shall be overthrown:
5:39
but if it is of Elohim, yoů will not be able to overthrow;
or, yoů may even be found fighting against Elohim.” ⌂
5:40
And the Council took his advice
and summoned the apostles in.

of crucifixion execution, but of impaling the dead body for exhibition after execution by stoning.]
a 5:31 turning their hearts ░░ />> repentance;
b 5:32 which ░░ [neut. = spirit]; /x: whom;
c 5:36 Theudas ░░ [not same as the one described by Josephus – killed sometime between CE 44 and 46.]
d 5:36 Yehudah ░░ /> Yudah; />> Judah - most; /x: Judas – KJV; /[See BW ‘Judah’ ‘Jew’ ‘Judas’]
e 5:37 registration ░░ [the one taken under the governor Sulpicius Quirinius, 6 CE. Cf. Lk 2:2 a special registration

administered by him, not as a governor.]

 And after having them flogged they ordered the apostles
not anymore to speak out upon the basis of the name of Yeshua.
and then released them.
5:41
So the apostles, for their part,
left from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to suffer indignity
in order to keep that very Name [5:40; 3Jn 1:7] honored.
5:42
And every day, they never ceased teaching,
both in the Miqdash and at home,
bringing good news about the very Mashiah
[having come in the person of] Yeshua.

(Acts 6)
6:1 Now in those days
when the disciples were increasing in numbers
there was [among them within the Mashian Community]
a murmuring from the Greek-speaking Yehudim
against the Hebrew-speaking Yehudim, a
because their widows had been neglected in the daily food distribution
6:2
And the Twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said,
“It is not pleasing that we should neglect the word of the Elohim
in order to take care of problems ‘serving tables’ instead!
6:3
Therefore, yoů fellow brethren should choose from among yoů,
seven men well witnessed, full of {holy} spirit and of wisdom,
whom we may appoint in charge of this necessary-task.
6:4
Then, as for us, we will give all our time to prayer
and to the ministry of the Word.”
6:5
And what they said pleased the multitude
and they chose [seven – ]
Stephen, a man full of faith and of holy spirit,
and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas—
and Nicolaus,b [cf. Rev 2:6] a proselyte [= to Yehudism] of Antioch [of SURIA];
6:6
they presented these men to the apostles,
who prayed and laid their hands upon them.
6:7
And the word of the Elohim kept spreading,
and the number of the disciples greatly increased in Yerusalem,
and a large number of the [Yehudim] priests became obedient to the FAITH.
Stephen Arrested

a 6:1 Greek-speaking ~ Hebrew-speaking Yehudim ░░ /Hellenistic ~ Hebraic Jews; / [‘Yehudim’ of Judaic culture,
history, ethnicity and religion. Cf. Israelites. Note: 1st century “Christianity” was not separate from Second Temple
Period pre-rabbinic Yehudism.][‘Greek-speaking’ – habitually spoke Greek to the exclusion of Hebrew or Aramaic.]
b
6:5 Nicolaus ░░ [Cf. Nicolaitans in Rev 2:6, 15]
6:8
And Stephen, full of [God's] grace{/mss}a and of power,
did great wonders and signs among the people.
6:9
But some from the so-called synagogue of the Libertinesb,
— composed of the Cyrenians and of the Alexandrians,
and as well as of those from the Roman provinces of CILICIA and ASIA —
came forward and began to debate and dispute with Stephen.
6:10
Yet, they were not able to stand up against and refute the wisdom and the spirit
with which he was speaking out.
6:11
Then they secretly put up some men to say,
<We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words
against Moses and against the Elohim.>
6:12
And they stirred up the people as well as the Elders and the soferim
and jumped out at him, seized him
and brought him to the Sanhedrin Council,
6:13
There they set up false witnesses, who said,
“This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words
against this Holy Placec and the Torah:
6:14
In fact | we have heard him say,
that this Yeshua the Nazorean will tear-down this Place
and will have the customs changed,
which Moses handed down to us.”
6:15
And looking at Stephen with their eyes fixed on him,
all those sitting in Sanhedrin Council saw
that his face was like the face of an angel.

(Acts 7) Stephen’s apologia

7:1-53 Stephen’s apologia
7:1
And the High Priest asked,
“These accusations – are they as facts as has been stated?”
7:2
And Stephen said,
“Brothers and fathers, hear me!

a 6:8 grace {/mss} ░░ {/faith – KJV++}

b 6:8 Libertines ░░ [members of slave class who was freed and granted the privilege of citizenship.]
c 6:13 this holy place ░░ (kata tou topou tou hagiou toutou) [= Mishkan; Cf. Mt 24:15 ‘a holy place’; the Miqdash in

general; not same as ‘the Holy places’, nor ‘the Holy of Holy places’ in Heb 8:2ff.]
 Abraham (Gen 12:1ff)
“The Elohim of glory appeared to our father Abraham,
while he was in MESOPOTAMIA,
before he went to settle in Harrana,
7:3
and said to him,
<Get out of your country
and from your kinsfolk
and go forth to a land I will show yoů.>
7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans
and dwelt in Harran
and after the death of his father Terah [at hundred thirty years of age] b
Elohim had Abraham resettled from there,
into this very land, in which yoů now dwell.
7:5
And Elohim did not give him any of it as inheritance,
not even a foot of ground
and promised to ☼give it to him as his possession
and to his descendants after him,
even though as yet he had no child.
7:6
And the Elohim spoke as this:
<☼his descendants will be alien-resident in a foreign land
— even they should bring them into bondage
and mistreat them —
four hundred years. {☼Gen 15:13}
7:7
<☼I surely will judge the nation
to which they will be in bondage,
And the Elohim said,
<and after these things
they will come out of there
and render sacred service to me in this place.>
7:8
And He gave him the covenant of 'circumcision' [Gen 17:10]
and thus [= in accordance with all this] he fathered Isaac
and gave him brit-milahc on the eighth day,
and Isaac did the same for Yaakob,
and Yaakob for the Twelve Patriarchs. [Gen 37 ff]

a 7:2 Harran ░░ /Charran; /[a city which in Northwestern Mesopotamia] [cf. ‘Haran’ – Abraham’s elder brother]
b 7:4 his father ░░ [Terah was 205 year-old when he died (Gen 11:32). Abram, Nahor, Haran were born to him after
when he was 70 year-old (Gen 11:26) (= Terah began having children at age 70, when his eldest son Haran was born).
Abram was 75 years old when he left Charran (Gen 12:4) – this means Terah was 130 year old when Abram was born.]
c 7:8 gave brit-milah ░░[‘brit-milah’ - Yehudim circumcision rite]; /> circumcised - most;
 Yosef as a like-model
7:9
“And the patriarchs, being jealous of Yosef,
sold him into Mitsrayima.
But the Elohim was with him,
7:10
and rescued him from all his afflictions
and gave him favor and wisdom
before Pharaoh, king of Mitsrayim,
who made him rule over Mitsrayim and his entire household.
7:11
Now there came a famine
over the whole of Mitsrayim and CANAAN
and great misery prevailed
when our forefathers found nothing to eat.
7:12
But when Yaakob heard that
there was grain to be found in Mitsrayim,
he sent down our forefathers there first.
7:13
And it was at the their second visit,
Yosef made himself known to his brothers,
and so it happened that
Pharaoh came to be informed of Yosef’s family.
7:14
And Yosef sent for Yaakob his father and all his relatives,
seventy five souls in all.
7:15a
Thus, Yaakob went down into Mitsrayim,
and there he himself died.
[+ his body was carried to Canaan
and entombed at the Abraham’s burial site, the cave at Machpelah]
b
And his descendants—our forefathers died there too;
7:16
and their bones – Yosef and his sons –
were later removed to Shechem and laid in the tomb [in the field]
— the [family of] Abraham, [that is, Yaakob], purchased
for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

a 7:9ff, 34, 40 Mitsrayim ░░ [= Pharaoh’s Egypt, in contrast to Roman Province in Act 2:10]
 Moses as a like-model (Exodus 1 ff)
7:17
“But as the time drew near for the Elohim to fulfill His promise
the one He had covenanted with Abraham,
the people grew and increased in number in Mitsrayim,
7:18
until there arose another king to rule over Mitsrayim,
who did not know about Yosef.
7:19
This one exploited our people and oppressed our fore-fathers,
forcing them to abandon their babies out exposed in the open
so that they might not be kept alive.
7:20
At which due time Moses was born
and was wonderful to the Elohim,
and he was nursed three months at home.
7:21
And when he was exposed as such,
Pharaoh's daughter declared to be hers
and reared him up as her own son.
7:22
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of People of Mitsrayim,
and was mighty in his words and works.
7:23
But when the time of forty years was fulfilled with him,
it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
7:24
And seeing one of them being ill-treated,
he defended him
and, by striking that guy of Mitsrayim down,
avenged the one who had suffered cruel treatment:
7:25
And he supposed his brethren would understood that
the Elohim was putting him to deliver them with his hand —
the fact was, they failed to grasp this.
7:26
And on the following day
he came upon to a scene of two of them who got into a fight
and seeking to reconcile them
and talk them into making peace,
he said
“Hey, yoů are brothers!
Why do yoů hurt each another?
7:27
At that the man who had been first
to make his fellow countryman suffer wrong
thrust him aside with this word,
“Who set you over us a ruler and judge?
7:28
You do not wish to kill me
as you killed the guy of Egypt yesterday, do you?”
7:29
And on hearing this Moses fled the country
and settled as a foreigner in the land of MIDIAN,
 where eventually two sons were born to him.
7:30
“And when forty years were fulfilled,
an angela [of Adonai] appeared to him [Exo 3:2]
in the desert-wilderness of Mount Sinai,
in a flame of fire in a bush.
7:31
And when Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight
and as he came near to consider what it was,
a voice of Adonai came to him,
7:32
<I, I am the Elohimb of your forefathersc
— ☼ the Elohim worshipped by Abraham,
yes, the Elohim worshiped by Isaac,
yes, the Elohim worshiped by Yaakob.[☼Exo 3:6]
And Moses was trembling,
and did not dare to consider what it was.

7:33
And the very Adonai said to him,
<Take the sandals off your feet:
you see, the place where you are standing
is a ground now set-apartd.
7:34
I have certainly seen the oppression suffered by my people
who are in Mitsrayime
and have heard their groaning
and I have come down to rescue them.
And now come!
I will send you off to Mitsrayim [to face the Pharaoh] .>{Exo 3:7-8; 10}

7:35
This same Moses whom they had rejected by saying
<Who designated you as a ruler and a judge?>{Exo 2:14}
— the Elohim has sent him as both a ruler and a redeemer
with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
7:36
This man led them forth, having done wonders and signs
in Mitsrayim as well as at the ☼See of Reedf;
and in the desert-wilderness forty years.
7:37
This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel,
☼<the Elohim will raise up for yoů a prophet like myself,

taken from among yoůr own brethren;

{You shall hear Him}.>[also 3:22] {☼Deu 18:15; 18-19}

a 7:30 an angel ░░ [Exo 3:2 ‘an angel of YHWH’ (LXX aggelos kurio). x: the angel – most]. [a messenger, not ‘God
the Son’. Cf. Heb 1:4; Cf. 1Th 4:19]
b 7:32 the Elohim ░░ /the God – most; [IRENT translates Gk. ‘God’ in most cases as ‘Elohim’.]
c 7:32 forefathers ░░ [‘fathers’ - metonymic – ancestors, forefathers]
d 7:33 set-apart ░░ /holy – most;
e 7:34, 40 Mitsrayim ░░ (7:9ff); [Pharaoh’s Egypt]
f 7:36 Sea of Reed ░░ [- after MT reading. /Red Sea – after LXX]
 7:38
This was he who,
at the time when the people was assembled
in the desert-wilderness,
encountered the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai;
he was with our fore-fathers. It was Moses
who received the God's living utterances to give to us:
7:39
“However, our fore-fathers refused
to render obedience to him.
On the contrary, thrusting him away
and turned towards Mitsrayim in their hearts,
7:40
saying to Aaron,
<Make us gods
to go before us on our journey.
As for this Moses, you see,
who led us out of the land of Mitsrayim,
we do not know what has become of him!>
7:41
And they made a calf in those days
and brought a sacrifice to the carved idol of false godsa
and was merry in the works of their hands.
7:42
But the Elohim turned and gave them up to serve the host of the heaven;
as it is written in the scroll of the Nevi'imb, {Amos 5:25-27 LXX}
<It was not to me
that yoů offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices
forty years in the desert wilderness,
was it, O House of Israel?
7:43
No, instead yoů put up the tent for shrinec of Moloch
as well as {your} star god Remphan {/mss},
the images which yoů made as objects for yoůr worship.
Therefore, I shall put yoů on exile to beyond Babel.>

a 7:41 carved idol of false gods ░░ /x: idol;

b 7:42 the Nevi'im ░░ /> the Prophets; [Heb. = the (Books of) Prophets (of the Hebrew Scripture)];
c 7:43 tent for shrine ░░ /tent; /x: tabernacle – KJV, etc.;
 7:44
“The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers
in the desert wilderness,
fashioned according to the direction given by the Elohim,
who had told Moses to make it
after the pattern which he had seen.
7:45
After that, our forefathers,
having had the tabernacle handed over to them,
took it with them
when they were with Yehoshua, son of Nun,a
as they were entering the land
at the time of dispossession of the Gentiles,
who the Elohim was driving out before the face of our fathers.
And so it continued until the days of David,
7:46
who, finding favor in the sight of the Elohim,
asked to search out a dwellingb for the Elohim of Yaakob.[Psa 132:5 LXX]
7:47
In the end, however,
it was Solomon who built Him a house.
7:48
“However, the Most High does not dwell
in any hand-made sanctuaries;
as says the prophet,
7:49
<The heaven is My throne
and the earth a footstool of My foot:
What sort of house will yoů build Me?> {Is. 66. 1a}
says Adonai,
<Or what is the place of My rest?
7:50
Did not My hand make all these things?>{Is. 66. 12}
7:51
“☼Yoů stubborn and obstinate,
☼
with no circumcision of either heart or ears!
Yoů are the ones who always ☼defy the Spirit of Holiness:
as yoůr fathers did, so do yoů also.
7:52
Which one was there among the prophets
whom yoůr forefathers did not persecute?
Moreover, they put to death those who announced in advance
the coming of the Righteous One;
of this very One, yoů now stand as the ones
who handed over Him and had Him executed. c
7:53
Yoů are the very ones who received the Torah
as transmitted through divine messengers’ hands [7:35]
but yoů have not obeyed it!”

a 7:45 Yehoshua, son of Nun,░░ (also in Heb 4:8) (Not same person of Lk 3:29); /Joshua; /Jehoshua;
b 7:46 dwelling ░░ /x: tabernacle; [skēnōma (Cf. ‘tent of mortal body’ 2Pe 1:13). Cf. skēnē. See BW.]
c 7:52 now stand as the ones who have Him handed over and had Him executed ░░ /now have become betrayers

and murderers – most; / [Cf. Judas as a ‘betrayer’ of Yeshua to them][See BW ‘*betray’]

7:54
((Now when they heard these things,
they were cut to the heart and they were gnashing their teeth at him.))
7:55
But he, being full of holy spirit,
looked up and fixed his eyes intently to the heaven
and saw God's glory
and Yeshua standing at the right hand of the Elohim,
7:56
and said,
“Behold, I see the heavens opened up
and the son-of-mana standing at the right hand of the Elohim.”
7:57
At that, crying out with a loud voice, they covered their ears
[with their hands] [not to hear any more of blasphemy from him].
And all rushed together upon him;
7:58
and having thrust him out of the City
they began stoning him to death.
As for the witnesses they took off their robes
and laid at the feet of a young man named Shaulb.
7:59
Yes, as they were throwing stones at him,
Stephen called upon [the Lord]c and said
“Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit.” d
7:60
And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice,
“O Lord,e do not hold this sin against them.” {Cf. Lk 23:34a}
And it was his last words as he fell asleep to rest in the Lord. f
8:1a
As for Shaul he gave his hearty consent to the execution of Stephen.
(Acts 8)
Persecution of Mashian Community in Yerusalem
8:1b
It so came on that day a great persecution
upon the Mashian Community in Yerusalem,
c
and all were dispersed over the regions of JUDEA and SAMARIA,
except the apostles [themselves].
8:2
Some devout men carried [the body of] Stephen [to a tomb]
and mourned deeply over him.
8:3
There, as for Shaul, his aim was
to wipe out the Mashian Community
— going from house to house, dragging away both men and women,
and putting them into prison.

a 7:56 the son-of-man ░ {/the Son of God}; [not ‘God the Son’] [Here the only instance in which the Lord was thus
referred to by another. When used by Yeshua as circumlocution of ‘I’ in the Gospels (mostly G-Mt), it is capitalized.]
b 7:58 Shaul ░░ /> Saul; [Heb. ‘asked of (God)’; Only in Acts - first time appearance of his name here. His Roman

name, Paulos (/Paul) (> Lat. Paulus ‘small’), appears from Act 13:9 and thereafter.];
c 7:59 called upon [the Lord] ░░ /call upon God – KJV; /
d 7:59 'Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit' ░░ [Stephen was talking to Yeshua in vision; he was not 'praying' to Him.]
e 7:60 O Lord ░░ (Cf. 1:24) [kurie in vocative (anarthrous) anaphorically to the preceding v. 59 ‘Lord Yeshua’, rather

than in the sense of ‘Adonai’ which would be for the anarthrous nominative kurios.]; /Jehovah – NWT;
f
7:60 <verse> ░░ [Stephen – the very first martyr for Yeshua. ≈ 37 CE]
<SAMARITAN MISSION>

Samaritana Mission – 8:4-25

Philip proclaims Mashiah in Samaria

8:4
Those who got dispersed, on their part, went from place to place,
bringing good news of the Word [of Mashiah, the Risen Lord].
8:5
There, as they dispersed, Philip [one of the Seven] [6:5; 21:8] on his part
went down to a city of SAMARIA
and proclaimed the Mashiah to the people.
8:6
And the crowds with one accord paid close attention
to what Philip was saying to them,
as they heard and as they witnessed the signs he performed
8:7
— indeed, [in case of] many of those who had unclean spirits
these spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out [of them].
Besides, many who were paralyzed or crippled got healed.
8:8
As a result there was great rejoicing in the city.

‘Shimon the Magnus’ converted

8:9
But there was a certain man, Shimonb by name,
who had been there in that city
practicing occults and astonishing the people of SAMARIA,
claiming himself to be some great one.
8:10
Everyone, of high and low of class, paid attention to him, saying:
this man is the power of the great god.
8:11
And they were paying close attention to him,
because for a long time he had astonished them
with [performances of occult] of his sorceries.
8:12
But when the people began to believe Philip
as he brought good news of the Kingdom reign of the Elohim
yes, [as telling them about] the Good News
of the name of Yeshua the Mashiah,
they submitted themselves to immersion, both men and women.
8:13
In the end, even this Shimon himself became a believer,
and, after receiving immersion, attached himself with Philip,
and as he saw great signs and mighty works taking place
he got astonished.

a 8:4-25 <Samaritans> ░░ [They are Hebraioi (Hebrews) but not Ioudaioi (Yehudim). “It was the unanimous and
confident opinion of the Church Fathers that Samaritan teachers had been the first Gnostics” – Michael Goulder]
b 8:9 Shimon ░░ [‘Simon the Magnus’ – nominally converted to Christianity]
 Kefa and Yohan sent to Samaria
8:14
Now when the apostles who were at Yerusalem
heard that [people in] SAMARIA had received the word of the Elohim,
they sent Kefa and Yohan down there to join them.
8:15
When the two had come down, they prayed on the behalf of those Samaritans,
asking that these new believers may receive holy spirit.
8:16
The fact was, as yet holy spirit as such had fallen upon none of them:
they had only been immersed intoa the name of the Lord Yeshua.
8:17
Then they laid their hands on them
and they began to receive holy spiritb.
8:18
Now when the aforementioned Shimon saw that
it was through the laying on of the apostles' hands
that such {holy} spirit was given,
he offered them money,
8:19
saying
“Give me also this power,
so that everyone I lay my hands on may receive holy spirit.”
8:20
But Kefa said to him,
“May your silver be destroyed together with you!
You thought that
the freely given gift of the Elohim could be bought with money!
8:21
You have no part or place in this work of ours,
for | your heart is not right before the Elohim.
8:22
So, turn your heartc to Gods’ way away from your evilness
and why don’t you pray to the Elohim {/mss}!
Who knows, God permitting,
this intention in your heart might be even forgiven.
8:23
The fact is, I can see plainly
that a ☼bitter poison has taken hold of you,
and unrighteousness holds you in its grip☼.”{Dt 29:18 LXX; Is 58:6}
8:24
And Shimon answered and said,
“Please, yoů pray to the Lord for me,
so that none of the things which yoů have spoken of
may befall me.”
8:25
Then, as for the apostles, they started back to Yerusalem
after they had borne witness
and spoken the word of the Lord,
even as bringing good news
to many villages of the Samaritans [on the way].

a
8:16 immersed into the name ░░ (19:5; Cf. Mt 28:19b) [different from ‘~ in the name’ Act 10:48.]
b 8:17 holy spirit ░░ /x: the Holy Spirit – most; /x: the Holy Ghost – KJV; /
c
8:22 turn ones’ heart ░░ /> *repent;
<JUDEAN MISSION>

Judean Mission – 8:26-40; 9:32 – 11:18

Philip witnessing to a high official of Ethiopia

8:26
But an angel of Adonai spoke to Philip, saying
<Get up and go south down on the road
that runs down from Yerusalem to GAZA.>
((This is a desert road.))
8:27a
And he got up and went off.
8:27b
And look¡ there, a high court official of Ethiopiaa,
a man in power under Kandakeb,
((which refers to the title for queen of the Ethiopia)),
He was in charge of all her treasury,
and had come to Yerusalem to worship;
8:28
and he was now on his return journey
and, seated in his chariot,
he was reading aloud the prophet Isaiah.
8:29
And the Spiritc [of the Elohim] said to Philip,
“Go up there and join him in that chariot-carriage.”
8:30
And Philip ran up to him
and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said,
“Do you actually understand what you are reading aloud?”
8:31
And he said, “Really?! How could I ever?
Unless someone guides me …”
And he pleaded with Philip to come up and sit with him.

a 8:28 a high court official of Ethiopia░░ [a Greek-speaking Israelite in Diaspora.]; /x: an Ethiopian (man); [Modern
day Ethiopia is more southeast.]
b 8:28 Kandake ░░ /x: Candace [Anglicized name gives a different word picture.]
c 8:29 the Spirit ░░ [i.e. the Spirit of Elohim = the holy spirit 1:16] /x: the Holy Spirit – GNB, NLT; [Cf. personification

of the Spirit – 11:12; 16:7, and of the holy spirit 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 20:23, 28, 21:11; 28:25]
8:32
Now the portion for the scripture passage [in TaNaKh]
which he was reading aloud was this:
<As a sheep He was led to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before a shearer [of its fleece] is silent,
even thus He did not open His mouth:
8:33
In {His} humiliation
justice was taken away from Him.
Who is going to tell about the generation
which might come from Him,
seeing that His life is taken away from the eartha?>{Is. 53. 7, 8 LXX}
8:34
And the high court official answered Philip and said,
“May I ask you, about whom is the prophet saying this?
Is it about himself or about some other?”
8:35
And Philip opened his mouth
— beginning with this scripture passage
he went on bringing good news concerning Yeshua
to the official.
8:36
And as they proceeded along the way,
they came to a certain body of water,
and the high court official says,
“Look¡ here’s some water!
What would keep me from getting immersed?”
8:37
{And Philip said,
If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.
And he answered and said,
b
I believe that Yeshua the Mashiah is the Son of the Elohim.}
8:38
And he commanded the chariot to stand still
and they went down into the water,
both Philip and the high court official,
and Philip got him immersed [into Yeshua].
8:39
And when they came up out of the water,
Lord’s spirit took Philip away;
and the high court official on his part saw Philip no longer
and went on his own journey rejoicing
8:40
But as for Philip [the next thing which happened to him was that]
he was shown up at Ashodod
and going through all the towns he continued bringing good news
until he got to Caesarea-by-the-Sea.

a
8:29 earth ░░ [metonymic for ‘the land people live in’ ‘the world of people’]
b
8:37 <verse> ░░ [Only in later mss. Some translations omit this, e.g. NIV, ESV, NET, NWT, etc.
Bracketed in NASB.]
(Acts 9)
Shaul encounters Yeshua (So-called Paul’s conversion)
9:1
Shaul, meanwhile, still spewing death threats
against the disciples of the Lord,
approached the High Priest,
9:2
asked of him letters to the synagogues in Damascus to authorize him
so that if he find there anyone fled from Yerusalem
– whether men or women –
who were followers of ‘the Way’a [as it was known]
he could arrest and bring them back to Yerusalem
9:3
But it came to pass as he was going along,
as approaching Damascus
suddenly
a light from the heaven flashed around him:
9:4
and he fell to the ground and heardb a voice saying to him, [22:7; 26:13]
“Shaul, Shaul, how is it that
you’re coming after on me with such ill intentc?”
9:5
And he said,
“Who are you, Sir?”
And the One {said}{/mss},
“The same Yeshua, the One you’re coming after, is me!
{It’s hard on you when you keep kicking against ox-goads like this.} d

9:6
{And he, trembling and astonished said,
“Lord, what will you have me to do?”
And the Lord said to him,}
“But get up and go into the city
and you will be told what you must do!”
9:7
But the men who were on journey together with him
remained there speechlesse,
hearing the sound of voice [Shaul speaking] [cf. 22:9]
but seeing no one [other than Sau himself].
9:8
And Shaul got up from the ground,
and when he opened his eyes, he could see nothing.[v. 18]
So they led him by the hand
and brought him into Damascus.
9:9
And he was for two days unable to see
and did neither eat nor drink.

a 9:2 ‘The Way’ ░░ (19:9, 23; 24:14, 22) [= The Way of Mashiah. Cf. ‘the way of the Lord’ (18:25); the way of God’
(18:26). Cf. ‘a way of salvation’ (16:17)] [The expression is related but not identical to ‘Christianity’ as such is usually
mistaken as a religion and has now shown as ‘churchianity’.]
b
9:4 heard a voice ░░ (22:9) (akouō + accu. phonēn)
c
9:4 coming after on me with such ill intent ░░ /> persecuting me – most;
d
9:5 kicking against ox-goads ░░ [See 26:14]
e
9:7 remained speechless ░░ /stood speechless – most; [cf. 26:14a – all fell to the ground]
9:10
Now there was a certain disciple by the name of Hananyaha in Damascus,
and the Lordb said to him in a vision, “Hananyah!”
“Here I am, Lord!” he said.
9:11
And the Lord said to him,
“Get up and go down to the street which is called ‘Straight’
and at the house of Yehudah look for one named Shaul of Tarsus:
indeed, look, you’ll find him at prayer at this moment!
9:12
yes, in a vision he has seen a man named Hananyah
coming in and laying his hands on him
so that he might receive his sight.
9:13
But Hananyah answered,
“Lord, there are many
who have told me about that man!
What great harm he has done in Yerusalem
to those consecrated to you!
9:14
Moreover, here he is with the authority from the chief priests
to imprison everyone who calls upon your namec.
9:15
But the Lord said to him,
“Be on your way seeing that
this man is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name
to the Gentiles and kings
as well as to the sons of Israel:
9:16
And indeed, I myself will show him
how many things he must endure
and suffer on behalf of my name.”

9:17
And Hananyah went off and entered into the house
and, laying his hands on him said,
“Brother Shaul! The Lord Yeshua,
who appeared to you on the road in which you came,
has sent me, so that you may regain your sight
and be filled with holy spirit.”
9:18
And at once something like scales fell from his eyes
and {instantly} he regained his sight,
and he got up and received an immersion-rite;
9:19
and, taking some food, he was strengthened.
There for several days
Shaul remained with the disciples in Damascusd.

a 9:10 Hananyah ░░ /Ananias, Gk Hananias;

b 9:10 Lord ░░ [= the risen Yeshua the Mashiah]
c 9:14 your name ░░ [= Yeshua (v. 16)]
d 9:19 Damascus ░░ [See Gal 1:17 – he went to Arabia (for three years) and returned to Damascus.]
Shaul Proclaims Yeshua in Synagogue
9:20
And he began at once proclaiming in the synagogues
the very Yeshuaa to be the Son of the Elohim.
9:21
And all who heard him were astonished and said,
“This is the very one
who made havoc in Yerusalem
on those who called upon this name
and that he had come here for the very purpose
to bring them bound to the chief priests, isn’t he?”
9:22
But Shaul was all the more empowered [in his proclaiming]
and was stirring up the Yehudim who living in Damascus,
by the proofs he gave
that this Yeshua is indeed the very Mashiah [they have been long waiting for].
9:23
And after quite a few days,
the [Diaspora] Yehudim deliberated together
to bring Shaul to death;
however, their plot against him reached to his ears.
9:24
They closely guarded the city gates both day and night
[waiting out] for a chance to do away with him.
9:25
However, one night the disciples {of Yeshua} took him
and, lowering him in a large basket,
let him down the city wall [through a look-out opening] [to escape].
9:26
When he got back to Yerusalem,
Shaul tried to join the disciples
but they were all afraid of him,
not believing that he was now a disciple [of the Lord].
9:27
But BarNabba took him and brought to the apostles
and told them in detail
how he had seen the Lord on the road while he was on his journey
and how the Lord had spoken to him;
and how, in Damascus,
he had spoken out boldly in the name of this very Yeshua.
9:28
Thus, Shaul became freely associating with them in Yerusalem,
9:29
speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord [Yeshua].
and he was speaking and debating
with the Greek-speaking Yehudim;
but they were making attempts to kill him.
9:30
And when the brethren found about this,
they took him down to Caesarea [by the Sea in SAMARIA]b
a
9:20 the very Yeshua ░░ {/the anointed one; /x: Christ}
b
9:30 Caesarea [by the Sea in Samaria] ░░ [= ‘Caesarea Maritima’. An important seaport city built by Herod the
Great in Samaria, 55 miles NNW of Yerusalem. Cf. He also built Caesarea Philippi]
 and sent him off to Tarsus.
9:31
Then the Mashian communitya
– throughout all Judea and Galilee and SAMARIA –
indeed enjoyed a period of peacefulness.
They were being up-built [in the faith] and
living on in the reverence for the Lord,
and, finding itself consoled by the Spirit of Holiness,
it increased in the number of the followers.
9:32
And it came to pass,
as Kefa went through all the regions,
he came down also to those consecrated to Elohim
who had their dome at Lyddab.
9:33
And he found there a certain man named Aeneas,
who was paralyzed and had been bed-ridden eight years.
9:34
And Kefa said to him,
“Aeneas, Yeshua the Mashiah divinely heals yoů!
Get up and make up your bed.”
And at once he got up.
9:35
And all who lived in Lydda and in Sharon saw him,
and they turned to the Lord.
9:36
And there was a certain disciple named Tabitha in Yafoc,
who is called Dorcasd as translated to Greek.
This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy,
— she was doing them at all the times.
9:37
And it came to pass in those days, that she died, being sick,
and, having washed her, they laid her in an upstairs room.
9:38
Now Lydda was near to Yafo;
and when the disciples heard that Kefa was there,
they sent two men out to him with for him,
pleading him <Please come to us without delay>.
9:39
And Kefa arose and went with them.
And when he had come, they brought him into the upstairs room.
And all the widows stood by him weeping
and showing the tunics and garments
which Dorcas made while she was with them.
9:40
But Kefa put them all outside
and, having knelt down, prayed,
and turning toward the body, he said,
“Tabitha, Arise!”

a 9:31 Mashian Community ░░ [singular corporate body of Yeshua followers]; /> congregation; > Messianic
community – JNT; /x: church – most; /x: {/mss – pl.} churches – KJV; /
b 9:32 Lydda ░░ [11 miles SE of Yafo]
c 9:36 Yafo ░░ /Joppa; [a seaport 35 miles NW of Yerusalem; modern Jaffa merged with Tel Aviv]
d 9:36 Dorcas ░░ [Gk. dorkas – gazelle, deer]
 And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Kefa, she sat up.
9:41
And he gave her his hand and raised her up,
and calling the God's consecrated people, yes, widows,
he showed her to them alive sound and safe.
9:42
And it became known throughout all Yafo and many believed on the Lord.
9:43
And it came to pass that
he stayed many days in Yafo with a certain Shimon a tanner.

(Acts 10)
Cornelius becomes a believer
10:1-8 A vision of Cornelius
10:1
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea [Maritima],
Cornelius by name,
a Roman centurion belonging to the ‘Italian Cohort’ as it was called,
10:2
As a devouta man,
who, together with his whole household, worshiped the Elohim,b
being generous with gifts of mercy for the [Yehudim] people
and offering prayer to the Elohim without missing any prayer hour.c
10:3
Around sometime in ninth hour-periodd of the daye [about 3 p.m., Day 1]
he saw clearly in a vision
— an angel of the Elohim come in toward him and say to him,
“Cornelius!”
10:4
And Cornelius stared at him in fear and said:
“What is it, sir?”
And the angel said to him,
“Your prayers and your gift of mercy are gone up
to be remembered before the Elohim.
10:5
And now send men to Yafo and send for a Shimon,
who is surnamed Kefa:
10:6
he is lodging with a certain Shimon a tanner,
whose house is by the seaf.”
10:7
And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius had departed,
he called two of his house-servants and a devout soldier
from among those who had continued-steadfastly with him;
10:8
and having explained all things to them,
he sent them off to Yafog. [a coastal city, 30 miles south]

a 10:2 devout ░░ [≈ v. 22 righteous (Torah-observant)]

b 10:2 worshiped Elohim ░░ [i.e., ‘God-fearer’, a term denoting a gentile who has become to follow Yehudim life-
style but not fully converted.] [Also v. 22.]
c 10:2 offered prayer without missing any prayer hour░░ [Yehudim pray three times a day] [Minkhah is the afternoon

prayer (called ‘evening prayer’ – for coming evening, not at evening), Shakharit, recited upon arising, and Maariv before
going to bed.] /> prayed always (/x: continually, constantly);
d 10:3 ninth hour-period░░ [on a sundial around 2 - 3 p.m. = time for minkhah prayer.]
e 10:3, 9 day ░░ [= that which begins at sunrise for daytime, rather than a 24-hr calendar day.]
f 10:6 the sea ░░ [i.e. the Great Sea; Not to be confused with Sea (Lake) of Galilee
g 10:8ff Yafo ░░ /Joppa;
10:9-43 A vision of Kefa
10:9
Now on the next day, [Day 2]
while these [three men of Cornelius] were still on the journey [afoot]
and approaching the city [of Yafo],
Kefa on his part went up onto the flat rooftop
to offer a pray around sixth hour-period a [around noon]

10:10
And he became very-hungry
and wanted something to have a bite on:
but as they were preparing it,
a trance fell into {/mss} him.
10:11
And he sees the heaven opened
and some sort of holder descending {toward him}
— like a very large linen-sheet held by its four corners
being let down to the ground
10:12@
in which were all kinds of four-legged and creeping reptiles of the land
and flying-creatures of the air.
10:13@
And there came a voice to him,
“Get up, Kefa; slaughter and eat!”
10:14
But Kefa said,
“By no means, Lord!
See that I’ve never eaten anything
that is ritually unfit and unclean.”
10:15
And again a voice came to him, the second time,
“What the Elohim has declared clean,
you [must] not regard [anyone] ritually unclean!”
10:16
And this happened three times
And then at once the holder was taken up into heaven.
10:17
Now while Kefa was perplexed in himself
over the meaning of what the vision he had seen,
look¡ the men who were sent by Cornelius,
having made inquiry for Shimon's house, stood at the gate”
10:18
and they called out and inquired
if Shimon, called Kefa, was staying there [as a guest].
10:19
And as Kefa was mulling over the vision, the Spirit said to him,
“Look¡ {three}{/mss} men are looking for yoů [at the door]!
10:20
So, arise and go down and accompany with them
without hesitation in doubt:
because it is I who have sent them.”
10:21
And Kefa went down to the men and said,
“Here I am — the one yoů’re looking for.
What brought yoů [to trouble] to come down [this far]?”

a
10:9 sixth hour-period ░░ [a period of about an hour-period before midday.]
10:22
And they said,
“Cornelius, our centurion of our army, has sent us
— a [Torah-obserant] righteousa man, a gentile Elohim-worshiperb,
well-spoken of by the whole nation of the Yehudim;
he’s got divinely warned by a holy angel
to summon you to his house and to hear what you have to say.

10:23-44 Kefa finds Cornelius

10:23
So Kefa invited them in and welcomed them to stay overnight.
And on the next day he got up and set out with them; [Day 3]
and some of the fellow brethren from Yafo accompanied him.
10:24
And on the next day they arrived at Caesarea . [Day 4]
And Cornelius was waiting for them,
having called together his relatives and his close friends.
10:25
And it happened that when Kefa entered,
Cornelius met him and knelt down at Kefa’s feet
and prostrate before him [in profound respect].
10:26
But Kefa raised him up, saying
“No, sir! Do rise up, please. I too am a mere man [as you’re].”
10:27
And after talking with Cornelius, Kefa went in;
and finds there many people gathered together.
10:28
And he said to them,
“Yoů yourselves well know
how it is not permitted [at all] for any man who is a Yehudi
to associate with or visit anyone who is not,
and yet the Elohim has shown me
that I should regard no one ritually unfit or unclean.
10:29
So, I came really up here without objection, when I was sent for,
Now I have to ask the reason yoů have sent for me, don’t I?”
10:30
And Cornelius said,
“From then – on three days ago – until this very hour
I was {on fasting, and}
praying in the ninth hour-period in my house,[around 3 p.m., Day 1]
and look¡
a man stood before me in bright clothes,
10:31
and says,
<Cornelius!
Your prayer has been heard
and your gifts of mercy are remembered in the sight of the Elohim.
10:32
Send therefore to Yafo and call for Shimon, called Kefa;
he is staying in the house of Shimon a tanner, by the [Great] sea.>

a
10:22 righteous ░░ [Torah-observant; ≈ v. 2 devout]
b
10:22 gentile Elohim-worshiper ░░ [= v. 2 ‘God-fearer’.]
10:33
So right away I sent for you,
and it’s very good of you to have come.
Moreover, we are now all here in the sight of the Elohim,
to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
10:34
And Kefa opened his mouth and said,
“I now certainly see that the Elohim is not someone
who shows partiality in dealing with men
10:35
On the contrary, no matter what nation they are from,
those+ who revere Him and follow what is righteous before Him,
are pleasing to Him.
10:36
True enough, it was to the sons of Israel
that He sent forth His message,
bringing good news of shalom through Yeshua the Mashiah
— It is this Yeshua the Mashiah who is Lord of all.
10:37
As for yourselves, yoů know well enough of the events
which have lately occurred throughout JUDEA
events which started from GALILEE,
after the immersion rite proclaimed by Yohanan.
10:38
Yes, about Yeshua, the one who was from Nazareth
— how the Elohim anointed Him as the Mashiah
with holy spirit and power: a
who went through the land doing good things
and healing all those oppressed by the devil;
as the Elohim was with Him.
10:39
And we are witnesses of all things which He did
both in the land of Judea, yes, in Yerusalem
— whom they put to death having hung up
☼on a wooden-stake.{Cf. ☼Deu 21:22}b

10:40
the Elohim raised him up to Life on the third day
and gave Him to become manifest,
10:41
not to all the people, but to witnesses
that were appointed before by the Elohim,
that is, to us, who ate and drank with Him
after He rose from among the dead.
10:42
And He directed us to proclaim to the people and to testify that
this is the very One who has been chosen by the Elohim
to be a judge over both the living and the dead.
10:43
To Him all the prophets testify, that through His name
everyone who believes in Him will receive forgiveness of sins.”

a 10:38 with holy spirit and power ░░ (pnemati hagiō kai dunamei; ‘holy spirit’ ‘power’ – appositive, hendiadys)
b 10:39 hung on a wooden-stake ░░ (also 5:30) [allusion to Deu 21:22, but, there, ‘hanging on a wooden-stake’ is not
of crucifixion but of impaling of the body after execution.]
Cornelius - Holy spirit to the Gentiles
10:44-48 The Gentiles receive the holy spirit
10:44
While Kefa yet spoke these words, the [promised] holy spirit fell
on all those [in Cornelius’] who were hearing these words.
10:45
And those believers from among the ‘circumcision’
who had come with Kefa
were astonished,
because the freely given gift of the [very promised] holy ☼spirit
had been poured out a {☼Ezk 39:29; Is 32:15}
even on theseb Gentiles;[11:16-18; 19:5-7; Gal 3:14]
10:46
indeed, the Gentile people were
hearing these folks speaking with languagesc [native of their own] [←2:4; → 19:6]
and praising [the greatness of] the Elohim.
Then Kefa replied,
10:47
“Is there anyone who would presume
to withhold the water for immersion
from those people
who have received the promised holy spiritd?”
?”
10:48
So he gave an order to have them get immersed
in the namee of Yeshua the Mashiah{/mss}f.
And this having been done,
they asked him to stay on for a few days.

(Acts 11)
11:1
Now the apostles and the fellow brethren who were in Judea
heard that the Gentiles too had received the word of the Elohim.
11:2
So when Kefa came up to Yerusalem,
those of the circumcision party found fault with him,
11:3
arguing,
“You went into [the home of] uncircumcised men
[to be their guest] — [how in the world]!
you did [even] share a meal with them?!”

a
10:45 spirit ~ pour out ░░ [pour out – baptized; cf. breathed out ~ received (Jn 20:22)] [spirit //water –
Isa 44:3]
b
10:45 these Gentiles ░░ [they were God-fearing Gentiles]
c
10:46 speaking in languages [native of their own] ░░ (speak in one’s own tongue); lxx: speaking with
tongues – most (KJV, ASV); /x: speaking in tongues – NIV, ESV, NET; [Cf. ‘glossalalia’ of Pentecostals
and Charismatics tongue-speaking. See BW #1.]
d
10:47 the promised holy spirit ░░ /x: the Holy Spirit – most; /xxx: the Holy Ghost - KJV;
nte To(speak in one’s own tongue); lxx: speaking with tongues – most (KJV, ASV); /x: speaking in tongues
– NIV, ESV, NET; [Cf. ‘glossalalia’ of Pentecostals and Charismatics tongue-speaking. See BW #1.]
e
10:48 immersed in the name of ░░ [different from ‘immersed into the name of’ (Act 8:16; Mt 28:19b;
Rm 6:3; Gal 3:27). See BW #3]
f
10:48 Yeshua the Mashiah {/mss} ░░ {/the Lord}
11:4
But Kefa began and explained it to them [what happened] all in order, saying
11:5
“I was in the city of Yafo,
there praying and in a trance I saw a vision:
Here descending down
some sort of a holder like a very large linen-sheet,
lowered from the heaven [held] by four corners,
and it came right down to me.
11:6
((as I looked at it intently I was observing:))
And saw the four-legged animals of the land — even wild beasts—
and crawling things
and flying-creatures of the air.
11:7
And I heard also a voice saying to me,
<Get up, Kefa;
have them slaughtered and eat!>
11:8
But I said,
<No, Lord! Absolutely not!
because never did anything common or unclean
enter into my mouth.>
11:9
But a voice replied the second time from the heaven,
<What the Elohim has made and pronounced clean,
you stop making it common and calling it unclean.>
11:10
And this happened three times
and all were pulled up back into the heaven.
11:11
And behold! right away three men stood before the house
in which we-were {/mss} staying,
having been sent to me from Caesarea.
11:12
And the Spirit told me to go with them,
{doubting nothing /without hesitation}
And these six fellow brethren here also accompanied me,
and we all entered into the house of that man, [Cornelius] .
11:13
And he [Cornelius] informed us how he had seen the angel
standing in his house and saying
<Send someone to Yafo and send for Shimon,
who is called Kefa;
11:14
he will speak to you words of a message,
by which you will be saved
— you and all your household.>
 11:15
And as I began to speak, the promised holy spirit fell on them,
just-as upon us at the beginninga.
11:16
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say,
<Yohanan indeed immersed in water;
but yoů shall be immersed in holy spirit.>[1:5]
11:17
If then He {/mss} gave to them the same freely given gift [of holy spirit]
[equally] like he did also to us [10:45; 19:5-7; Gal 3:14]
when we believed on the Lord Yeshua the Mashiah,
{now} who was I
so that I should be able to stand in the way of the Elohim?”

11:18
And they, having heard these things, quieted down ceasing their objections
and glorified the Elohim, saying
“Well then, indeed to the Gentiles also
the Elohim has granted repentance into Life!

BarNabba looking for Shaul

11:19
Meanwhile, as for those who had been scattered as result of
the persecution which took place following the death of Stephen
they made their way
as far as PHOENICIA, CYPRUS, and Antioch [in SURIA]
— it was only to the Yehudim there [in Diaspora]
they managed to speakb God’s message.
11:20
However, there were among them
a number of men, natives of Cyprus and Cyrene, [cf. 13:1]
who, when they had come to Antioch [in SURIA],
began to speak to the Greek-speaking Israelite peoplec too,
bringing good news of the Lord Yeshua to them
11:21
And the hand of Adonai was with them
and a great number who believed turned to the Lord [Yeshua].
11:22
And when this news about Antioch reached
the Apostolic Mashian Community in Yerusalem,
it prompted them to send out BarNabba to Antioch
to check things out.
11:23
When, upon arriving, he got to witness there
the working of the grace of the Elohim, and became full of joy.
He encouraged them all to remain [faithful] to the Lord
with devoted hearts
11:24
((there he was, being a good man, full of holy spirit and of faith))
— even a large crowd was added to the Lord.

a
11:15 at the beginning ░░ [i.e. at the Shavuot (Pentecost) Event vv. 2:1ff]
b
11:19 speak God’s message ░░ /xx: preach the word – KJV; /spread the word – NIV; /speak ~ – ESV;
c
11:20 Greek-speaking ~ people ░░ (also 6:1; 9:29); /> Hellenists; {/mss – Greeks; Grecians – KJV}
11:25
And BarNabba went to Tarsus to seek Shaul;
11:26
and, having found him, brought him to Antioch.
11:26b
And it came to pass
for them to meet with the congregation there for a whole year
and to teach a large crowd
and for the first time there in Antioch
the disciples came to be called ‘Christians’a.
11:27
Now in these days prophets came down from Yerusalem to Antioch.
11:28
And there one of them named Agabus came forward
and, prompted through the Spirit, pointed out to them
that there was going to be a great famine
throughout all the land [of JUDEA]:
((This in fact occurred in the days of Claudius {Caesar}.))[CE 41-54]
11:29
And the disciples [there in Antioch], according to their ability,
determined to send ministering relief
to the fellow brethren living in JUDEA.
11:30
They carried out what they had decided, having it sent
to the elders, with BarNabba and Shaul in charge.
↓↓
(Acts 12)
Yaakob BarZebedee martyred
12:1
Now about that particular time
Herod Agrippa I the king began to put his hands to harm
on some of those of the Apostolic Mashian Community
12:2
And he put Yaakob bar Zebedee, the brother of Yohan,
to death with the sword. [62 CE]

↓↓
Kefa made escape from prison

12:3
And having seen that it was pleasing to the Yehudim,
he proceeded to seize Kefa also.
(This happened during the days of the Matzah Festival.) b
12:4
And having hold of him, he placed him in prison,
turning him to four quaternioncof soldiers,
Herod’s intention being that,
once the Passoverd Festival season was out of the way,
he would bring him out to the public.

a 11:26 Christians░░ [Gentile believers in Mashiah were called so; not referred to themselves. The sense is not same
as those of Christian religions; different connotation and association] [Gk. ‘Christianoi’ (pl.). Cf. singular form in Act
26:28; 1Pe 4:16).] /xx: Messianic - JNT;
b 12:3 Matzah Festival ░░ [20:6]
c 12:4 quaternion ░░ [a four-men squad]
d 12:4 Passover Festival season ░░ [incl. the Festival of Matzah] /Heb. Pesaḥ; /pascha – Vulgate; /> Passover; /xx:

Easter – KJV (has it only here), [Here, Easter was in archaic use for Passover as ‘ester’ in Tyndale.][Note. uses the word
‘Pascha’ (fr. Gk and Latin) in Eastern Orthodox = ‘Easter’ in Roman Catholic.]
 12:5
Thus Kefa was being kept imprisoned;
but prayer was fervently done by he people of Mashiah-followersa
to the Elohim on behalf of him.
12:6
And on that very night
before Herod was about to bring him out,
Kefa bound with two chains was sleeping
between two soldiers,
while guards in front of the door,
watching over the prison.
12:7
And look¡ an angel of Adanai stood by
and there a light shined in the prison cell.
Poking him on his side the angel woke him, saying
“Get up, quick!”

And his chains fell off from his hands.

12:8
And the angel said to him,
“Gird yourself and tie on your sandals.”

And he did so.

And finally the angel told him:
“Put on your robe and follow me.”
12:9
So Kefa went out and just followed. He did not know, however,
all this was real – what was happening as directed by the angel,
in fact, he thought he was seeing a vision.
12:10
And having passed the first guard and then another,
they came upon the iron gate which would lead them into the city;
— this gate opened before them by itself!
So they came out and
after they had walked down along one narrow-street,
right away the angel departed from him.
12:11
And Kefa, coming to himself, said,
“Now I truly know, that the Lord has sent forth His angel
and rescued me out of the hand of Herod
and from all that the people of the Judeans expected of him.”
12:12
And being aware of it, he came to the house of Mariam
((the mother of Yohanan, the one also called Markosb)). [⇨12:25]
Many were gathered there and were in prayer.
12:13
And when he knocked on the door of the gate,
a maidservant named Rhoda went out to answer the call.

a
12:5 people of Mashiah-followers ░░ />church – most; /congregation; /xx: assembly; /
b
12:12 Yohanan, the one also called Markos ░░ [12:25; 13:5, 13; 15:36-40] [= BarNabba’s cousin (Col
4:10) – G-Lk does not mention this.] [Yohanan - a Hebrew name; Markos, a Greek name]; /x: John Mark;
 12:14
And when she recognized the voice was Kefa's,
she was too overcome with joy to mind opening the gate,
instead, ran back inside and reported them
that Kefa was standing outside in the gateway.
12:15
And they said to her,
“You’ve lost your mind!”
But she kept insisting that that it was true.
And they said, “It must be the messengera from him.”
12:16
Meanwhile Kefa kept on knocking,
and when they opened and saw him, they were shocked.
12:17
But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, told in detail
how the Lord had brought him out of the prison.
And he said,
“Report these things to Yaakob [brother of the Lord] [15:13; 21:18]
and to the fellow brethren.”
And he left the house and went to another place.
12:18
When it became dayb,
there was great consternation among the soldiers,
who were wondering what could have become of Kefa.
12:19
As for Herod [Agrippa I], he put a thorough search for Kefa.
and, when not finding, he interrogated the guards.
Then he ordered them to be led away to execution
and then went down from Judea to Caesarea
and spent some time there. ◊
↓↓
Parenthetical: Death of Herod Agrippa I
12:20
Now Herod [Agrippa I] had been in state of furious anger
against the inhabitants of Tyre [Cf. 21:3] and Sidon.
There, with one accord, the representatives of them set out
to come to him,
and there, after having won over Blastus, the royal chamberlain,
they sent in a petition for the king
to grant use of cultivated-landc,
as their country was dependent for its food supply
on Herod’s royal land.
12:21
Thus, on an appointed day, Herod put on his royal robes,
and, having taken his seat on the judicial rostrum,
began to give out a harangue to them.
12:22
And the assembled mass of people began shouting,
<This is a god’s voice, not a man’s!>

a 12:15 messenger from him░░ /his angel – most; /x: his angelic counterpart – Cassirer;
b 12:18 became day ░░ [i.e. morning came. A day and a calendar date in the Bible begin at sunrise, not at sunset with
evening.]
c 12:20 cultivated-land ░░ [Emended based on the Aramaic word]; /peace – most;
 12:23
But at that very moment an angel of Adonai struck him down
because he failed to render due honor to the Elohim;
and so, having become eaten up by worms, he died. [CE 44] ◊

↓↓
12:24
Meanwhile the Word of the Elohim{/mss}a went on flourishing among the people
and spreading to a large number of people.
12:25
And as for BarNabba and Shaul,
they returned to Antioch from{/mss}b Yerusalem, [cf. Ga1 1:22; 2:1]
after having completed their mission of relief work,[11:29-30]
taking along with them Yohanan the one also called Markos. [⇦12:12; ⇨13:5, 13]

a
12:24 God {/mss} ░░ {/the Lord}
b
12:25 from {/mss} ░░ {/to}
<MISSION BEYOND PALESTINA>

Mission beyond Palestina – Ch. 13 – Ch. 28

Acts - PART II

Part 2. Ch. 13 to Ch. 28

Witnessing of the Mashian Community

through Paulos

II. Ch. 13-28 through Paulos’s mission

13:1 – 14:28 A. Paulos, 1st journey on mission
15:1-35 B. Yerusalem Council
15:36 – 18:22 C. Paulos’ 2nd journey on mission
18:23 – 21:26 D. Paulos’ 3rd journey on mission

II. 27:27 – 28:31 through Paulos’ imprisonment

21:27 – 26:32 A. Paulos in Yerusalem: Arrest and Trial
27:1 – 28:16 B. Paulos’ 4th journey in chain
28:17-31 C. Paulos’ last days in Rome

Places in Acts:

Tarsus in CILICIA
Antioch
Damascus
Corinth
Thessalonica
(Acts 13)
Commissioning of BarNabba and Shaul
13:1
Now in the local congregation in Antioch [in SURIA]
there were prophets and teachers, such as
 BarNabba,
 Symeon ((who was called ‘Darkie’)),
 Lucius ((the Cyrenian)), [cf. 11:20]
 Manaen
((who had been reared togethera with Herod [Antipas] the Tetrarch)),
 and Shaulb.
13:2
And they were serving the Lord
and, when they were on fasting the Spirit of Holiness spoke:
“Set both BarNabba and Shaul apart for me,
for the work to which I have called them.”
13:3
Then after they had fasted and prayed,
having ‘laid their hands on’ them for commissioning,
they sent them off.

a
13:1 reared-together with ░░ [i.e. foster-brother to]
b
13:1 Shaul ░░ [He was last on the list, the one who came to be called Paulos (/Paul) (See Act 13:9)]
13:4ff - 1st Journey [Taking off on ship from Antioch in SURIA]
13:4- 14:28 {Paulos’ First Missionary Journey, 47-48 CE)
Paulos & BarNabba and Yohanan Markos together

1st Missionary Journey to Galatia

(CE 46-49) Acts 13-14

Depart from Antioch

<on the sea>
Selucia; Cyprus; Salamis; Paphos
<on the land>
Attalia; Perga; Antioch of Pisidian; Iconium, Lystra, Derbe;
Returned to Antioch (of SURIA)

[Note: the placement of labels ‘Pamphylia’ should be just belowe where ‘Pisidia’.
Antioch – in Pisidia; Attalia and Perga is in Pamphylia; Iconium, Lystria and Derbe in
Lycaonia]
Begins Paulos on his first journey
13:4-12 In Cyprus; Proconsul Sergius Paulus;
13:4
So these two [BarNabba and Shaul],
being sent out by the Spirit of Holiness,
first went down to the harbor city Seleucia
and from there sailed to the Island CYPRUS.

13:5
And when they arrived at Salamis
[a port city on the east coast],
they began to proclaim the word of the Elohim{/mss}
there in the synagogues of the [Diaspora] Yehudima.
((Now, they had also the same Yohanan [the one called Markos] [⇦12:12, 25; ⇨13:13]
accompanying as their helper)).
13:6
And they had made {all the way} inland across the island
as far as Paphos [a port city on the west coast],
where they found a certain shamanic sorcerer named BarYoshua,
a Yehudib who claimed to be a prophet,
13:7
who was attending with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus
— a man of sound judgment.
This proconsul himself, having summoned BarNabba and Shaul,
wanted to hear the Word of the Elohim.
13:8
But Elymas the shamanic sorcerer
((that’s the way his name is translated into Greek))
began opposing them
and tried to turn the proconsul away from getting to the faith.
13:9
But Shaul, ((known from here on as Paulos)), being filled with holy spirit
And, having looked intently at him,
13:10
said,
“O my — full of all kinds of deceit and every schemes,
you — a devil’s son¡ c
you — an enemy to all righteousness!
You never stop making crookedd
the straight paths of Adonaie will you?
13:11
Well then, look¡ Adonai’s hand is against you,
and you will be struck blind and become unable to see
even the sunlight for a time.”

a
13:5ff Yehudim ░░ /x: *Jews; /xxx: Judeans;
b
13:6 Yehudi ░░ /Yehudite; /x: Jew;
c
13:10 a devil’s son ░░ (huie diabolous, vocative); /devil-like guy; /x: son (/child) of the devil; [Hebrew
idiom – ‘son of what devil is’ ‘man of devil-like character’.]
d
13:10 make crooked ░░ [Gk. diastrephō ‘cause truth perverted’] [See ‘*perversion in BW.]
e
13:11ff the very Adonai ░░ > LORD; /x: the Lord; [Cf. As for Gk. anarthrous kurios ‘Lord’ IRENT
renders it as Adonai or YHWH (the Tetragrammaton; /Yahueh; /Yahweh; /Jehovah). The latter is in the text
where God’s very name should be revealed and known to the readers of NT.] /
 And immediately there fell upon him
something of mist and then darkness,
and he became groping about
and tried to find someone to lead him by the hand.
13:12
Then, having witnessed what had happened with his own eyes
and being astounded,
the proconsul came to believe the teaching about the Lord.

13:4-12 In Antioch in PISIDIA

13:13
Now Paulos and his companions put out once again to sea
from Paphos a [of the island of CYPRUS]
 and, disembarking at the port Attalia in PAMPHYLIA[14:25]
came to its principal city Perga b ○ M

Yohanan (Markos) leaves them behind

((Here at Perga, Yohanan [called Markos][⇦ 13:5] on his part left them [+]c
and returned alone to Yerusalem [+]d.)) [⇨15:36-39]

Paulos’ Speech in Antioch

13:14
As for Paulos and BarNabba, however,
they continued their journey on foot from Perga,
until they reached Antioch in PISIDIA .
There, on the day of of the weeke
they went into the synagogue to attend
and took up their places.
13:15
And after the public reading of passages
from the Torah and the Nevi’im,
the leaders of the synagogue sent them [a message], saying
“O men, yoů brethren¡ if yoů have any word of exhortation
to offer to the people,
Feel free to speak [now].”

13:16
And Paulos stood up and,
beckoning with the hand,
began to give this [long speech]:

a
13:13 Paphos ░░ [on the southwestern coast of the island.][about 100 miles voyage from to Perga.]
b
13:13 Perga ░░ [about 8 miles inland from the south central coast of Asia Minor]
c
13:13 left them [+] ░░ [+ to go on for the mission work to the Gentiles from which he excused himself
out] (⇨15:38) [This caused a rupture later between Paulos and BarNabba (15:36-39). Of Markos’ leaving
them, the narrator of Acts left reasons undisclosed here.]
d
13:13 Yerusalem [+] ░░ [+— his home place] [12:12]
e
13:14 the day of the week ░░ [pl. sabbaths = week]; /the sabbath day – most;
 “O men, yoů Israelites and those God-revering Gentiles [among yoů]¡
Please hear me out [if yoů will]!
13:17
The Elohim of this people {Israel} chose our fathers and exalted the people
when they lived as foreigners in the land of Mitsrayim
and with a uplifted arm
He brought them out of it.
13:18
And He put up with the manner of{/mss} them
in the desert-wilderness
for a period of about forty years.
13:19
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of CANAAN,
He gave the land of these to them for an inheritance
{13:20b}
{and after these things}{⇋}
13:20a
— all that during about four hundred and fifty years.
b
“And after these things{⇋}
He gave to them judges until the last one being Samuel the Prophet.
13:21
And thereafter they asked for a king.
And the Elohim gave to them Shaul the son of Kish,
a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
13:22
And when He had removed him,
He raised up David to be their king;
to whom also He testified and said,
<I have found David the son of Yishaia,
a man after my heart, who will do all my will.>
13:23
From the seed of this man, David, [Cf. Lk 1:35]
the Elohim brought{/mss} a savior in the person of Yeshua,
according to His promise to Israel.
13:24
Before this Yeshua’s coming on the scene [for His public ministry]
Yohanan had made [the way ready by] proclaiming-publicly
to all the people of Israel
immersion calling for repentance.
13:25
And as Yohanan was completing the course of his mission,
he would say,
<Who do yoů think I am?
I myself am not that One [as Mashiah, who yoů are waiting for.
But, look¡ one is coming after me —
the sandals of whose feet I myself am not worthy to untie.>

13:26
“O men, yoů brethren¡ sons of of Abraham’s familyb
as well as ‘Elohim-worshiping’ Gentiles among yoů¡
It is to us
the word of this salvation has been sent forth!

a
13:22 Yishai ░░ /Jesse – in English form.
b
13:26 sons of Abraham’s family ░░ (genos); [See ‘Abraham’s seed/descendants’ in BW]
 13:27
The fact is, those who dwell in Yerusalem and their rulers
did not recognize this One [Yeshua] [as their Mashiah].
 Yet, having judged Hima,
they actually fulfilled the voices of the prophets
which are being read-out aloud in synagogues on every sabbath.
13:28
And though having [been] found not one ground
for condemning Him to death,
they still asked Pilate to have Him put awayb.
13:29
And when they had accomplished all things
that were written concerning Him,
they had Him taken down from the wooden-stake
and laid in a tomb.
13:30
But the Elohim raised Him to Life from among the dead:
13:31
and He was seen for many days
by those who had come up with Him from Galilee to Yerusalem,
who are now His witnesses to the people.
13:32
“And we are bringing good news to yoů
about the promise which came to the forefathers,
13:33
the fact that the Elohim has fulfilled this [very promise] to the{/mss} children,
— to us —
having raised Yeshua up to Life [from among the dead];
{/13:33}
as it is written also in the {second} {/mss}c Psalm, {Psa 2.7}{Heb 1:5; cf. Lk 3:22}
<You, you are my Son;
today I, I have brought you forth.>d
13:34
And the fact that
Heg — raising Yeshuah up to Life from among the dead
no more to return [to die and] to decay off —
He has spoken in this way:
<I will give yoů [people]
the trustworthy holy [promises] to David.>{Isa 55:3}

a
13:26 having judged ░░ (krinantes); /x: condemned (to death); ]
b
13:26 put ~ away ░░ (anaireō); [to bring to death sentence] /x: put to death; /x: execute; /x: kill;
c 13:33 {second}{/mss}░░ {/first}
d 13:33 today ~ brought you forth ░░ [Cf. ‘only begotten’ in BW] /declared your sonship; /fathered you - NET;
/begotten you – most; /x: become Your Father - HCSB; [Cf. unbiblical expression ‘eternally begotten Son’]
 13:35
This is also why it is said further on in another psalm, {Psa 16. 10}
<You will not allow your holy One to become decayed off.> [Act 2:25, 31]
13:36
“Indeed, David, on the one hand,
having served the purpose of the Elohim in his own generation,
fell asleep and was laid-beside his forefathers
and experienced decay:
13:37
on the other hand, the One whom the Elohim raised up to Life
did not get decayed away.
13:38
“Therefore, fellow brothers, let it be known to yoů
that through this very One, through Yeshua,
it is to yoů that forgiveness of sinsa is being proclaimed:
13:39
and that from all the things [of sin guilt]
from which yoů could not be made righteous
within the [framework of] Torah of Moses
— everyone who believes [in Him]
is made righteous by this One/Yeshua
13:40
Therefore beware, that what has been spoken in the Nevi'im {Hab 1. 5}
may not come upon yoů:
13:41
<Look, here, yoů despisers! Marvel and perish
because I am going to work a work in yoůr own days,
a work which yoů will never believe,
even if one declare it to yoů.>”

13:42
And as they Paulos and BarNabba went out
{from the synagogue of the Yehudim},
they {the gentiles} began pleading with them
that these words might be spoken to them the next sabbath.
13:43
Now when the synagogue broke up,
many of the Yehudim and the devout proselytes followed Paulos and BarNabba;
who speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of the Elohim.
13:44
And the next sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together
to hear the word of the Elohim {/mss}.
13:45
But when the Yehudim saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy
and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paulos,
{contradicting and blaspheming him.}
13:46
And Paulos and BarNabba spoke out boldly and said,

a 13:38 forgiveness of sins ░░ [‘that sins have been forgiven’ – an accomplished fact on the Cross, not ‘that sins will
be forgiven, depending on what a sinner would be doing’.]
 “It was necessary for us to proclaim the word of the Elohim
to yoů all first — the Yehudim.
However, since yoů spurn it
and thus prove yourselves unworthy of [receiving] eternal Life,
look¡ we are now turning to the Gentiles
[to continue proclaiming the message].>
13:47
In fact, this is what the very Adonai has
commanded us to do, saying,{Is. 49:6}
<I have set you to be a light
to the Gentiles,
and you to be for salvation [from me]
to the uttermost parts of the land.>”

13:48
And when the Gentiles heard this,
they were gladdened and gave praise to the word of the Elohim{/mss}
and as many as [Gentiles]
who have gotten themselves in line for eternal Life
came to believe.
13:49
And the word of the Lord was carried throughout all the country.
13:50
But the Yehudim incited the devout {and} prominent women
and the chief men of the city
and aroused a persecution against Paulos and BarNabba
and threw them out of their region.
13:51
But they, on their part, shook off the dust off their feet
[as a sign of protest] against them
and went off to Iconium .
13:52
Now as for the Gentile followers,
they were being filled with joy and with holy spirit.

(Acts 14)
14:1
Now here in Iconium, adopting the same way as before
[as they had done at Antioch]
Paulos and BarNabba made their way
into the synagogue of the Yehudim.
And there they spoke with such power that
a great number of both Yehudim and [proselyte] Greeks
did believe what they heard.
14:2
However, there were Yehudim
who would refuse to accept [their message];.[13:50]
and these succeded in stirring up the minds of the Gentiles
and in provoking animosity against the brethren.
14:3
Nonetheless, BarNabba and Paulos remained there for a considerable time,
and, speaking boldly relying on the Lord,
who, for His part, was adding His own testimony
to vindicate their message of His grace,
by bringing out signs and wonders
through the works of the hands of them.
14:4
But the large mass of people of the city was divided
in their opinions —
some sided with the Yehudim
and some with the apostles [v. 14] themselves, BarNabba and Paulos.
14:5
And on the part of both the Gentiles
and the Yehudim with their leaders
there arose a hostile movement to resort to violence,
yes, even to putting them to death
with stones throwing on them. [cf. 14:19]
14:6
Realizing what was happening, the two took to flight
and went off to the towns in LYCAoNIA – Lystra and Derbe –
and the neighboring region.
14:7
And it was there that they set out to bring good news:

Paulos heals a crippled in Lystra; Got stoned to half dead

14:8
Now, there in Lystra was a certain man
sitting helpless on the ground, unable to make use of his feet
because he had been crippled from his mother's womb
and had never been able to walk on his own feet.
14:9
This man was listening to Paulos’ words.
Paulos, for his part, looked straight at him,
and seeing that he believed
that Elohim could save him to be made whole,
14:10
said with a loud voice,
“{In the name of our Lord Yeshua the Mashiah}[←Peshitta]
stand straight up on your feet!”
And he jumped up and began to walk off.
14:11
And when the crowd saw what Paulos had done,
they raised their voices, shouting
in the native Lycaonian tongue [unknown to Paulos],
“The gods have come like mortal humans
and have come down to us!”a

a14:11 gods ~~ have come down to us ░░ [gods have become like human beings] [Zeus (≈ Roman god, Jupiter) and
Hermes (≈ Roman god, Mercury) were worshipped in the district.]
14:12
And they called BarNabba ‘Zeus’
[after the supreme Greek god],
and called Paulos ‘Hermes’
since he [as they saw] was the chief speaker [among the gods].a
14:13
And then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was before the city,
brought oxen and garlands to the gates
and wanted together with the crowds to offer sacrifices.
14:14
But when the two apostlesb, BarNabba and Paulos, heard of it,
they tore their clothes
and rushed out into the crowd and exclaimed in loud voices,
14:15
saying
“mGentlemen!
Why are yoů doing these things?
a
As for us, we are also mortals
who feel same way as yoů do.
b
Here we are bringing good news for yoů
to turn away from these worthless things to {the} living Elohim,
c
who ☼has made the heaven and the earth and the sea
and all the things in them:
14:16
In the generations gone by
He permitted all the nations to living on in their own ways.
14:17
And yet He did not leave Himself without-witness,
by doing yoů good,
as giving rains and fruitful seasons from heaven,
filling yoůr hearts to the full with cheerc and gladness.”

14:18
And even with these words
it was only with great difficulty
that they succeeded in preventing the crowd
from making [animal] sacrifice-offering for them to take.
14:19
But some Yehudim came from Antioch and Iconium
and, having persuaded the crowds,
they stoned Paulos to put him to death [2Co 11:25]
and dragged him off outside the city, taking him for dead.
14:20
When, however, the disciples got to him and gathered around,
he got himself up and went back into the city Lystra.

And on the next day, together with BarNabba,

he went off to Derbe.

a 14:12 Zeus ~ Hermes ░░ [Zeus (≈ Roman god, Jupiter) and Hermes (≈ Roman god, Mercury) were worshipped in the
district.] [Hermes - the messenger and attendant of Jupiter.]
b 14:14 apostles ░░ /x: Apostles; [Luke calls Paulos an ‘apostle’ are here v. 14 and v. 4, and the description here is

shared with BarNabba. This is a non-technical use here, referring to a commissioned messenger.]
c 14:17 cheer ░░ [Emendation based on Aramaic split word]
14:21
And after they had brought good news in that city
and had made many disciples,
they came back to Lystra; then to Iconium
and then returned finally to [Pisidian] Antioch ,
14:22
further strengthening the souls of the disciples,
encouraging them to remain in the faith, saying
<Through undergoing great deal of sufferings
we must enter into the [coming] Kingdom of the Elohim.>
14:23
And having appointed for them
elders to every congregation,
with prayer and fasting
they committed them to the Lord,
in whom they had come to believe.
14:24
And they went through PISIDIA and came to PAMPHYLIA.
14:25
And after speaking the word in Perga,
they went down to the port Attalia;

14:26
and from there they sailed off for Antioch [in SURIA],
from where they had been entrusted to the grace of the Elohim
for the work [commissioned to them] they had fulfilled.


Paulos at Antioch; confronts Judaizers
14:27
And when they had come to Antioch [in SURIA]
and had gathered the Apostolic Mashian Community together,
they related all things that the Elohim had done with them
and that He had opened a door to faith to the Gentiles.
14:28
And they stayed there no little time with the disciples.

(Acts 15)
15:1
At this stage certain men came down [here to Antioch in SURIA]
from [the Yerusalem Mashian Community in] Judea,
began to teach the following to the fellow brethren:
“Unless yoů should [first] undergo brit-milaha
{and conduct yourselves}
in conformity with the religious practiceb
of tradition from Moses,
yoů cannot come to get saved.”
15:2
Thus, when there was much dispute and heated debate
between Paulos and BarNabba on the one hand,
and these men, on the other.

a 15:1 brit-milah ░░ /circumcision rites; /> circumcision

b 15:1 religious practice ░░ [cf. 26:5 ‘religious practice’ (thrēskeia)]
 Paulos and BarNabba were then appointed to go up
along with somea of other men among them in Antioch,
to the apostles and elders in Yerusalem
to consult with them on this controversial question.
15:3
They were then sent off on their way by the congregation,
and went through both PHOENICIA and Samaria,
where they reported how the Gentiles were turning to Elohim,
this news causing great rejoicing among all the brethren.

Yerusalem Council
[Yerusalem Council] (prob. CE 49)]

15:4 And on arriving in Yerusalem, they were warmly-received

by the Mashian Community, from the apostles as well as the elders,
and so they gave an account of all the things
that the Elohim had done to aid them.
15:5
Now, some who had become believers there
((they were from the party of the Pharisees))
stood up and insisted, saying
“It is necessary to have them submit to ‘circumcision rites’
and to be ordered to keep the Torah of Moses.”

a 15:2 some of other ░░ [Titus one of them - Gal 2:4-6]

15:6
And the apostles and the elders gathered together
to see about this matter.
15:7
And after much debate had taken place,
Kefa rose and said to them,

“Brothers! Yoů know that

from earlier days the Elohim chose me among yoů{/mss}a[⇦11:21]
so that by my mouth
the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel to believe.
15:8
And the Elohim, knower of hearts, has testified to them,
giving them the [gift of] spirit of Holiness,
just as He did to us the Yehudim also;
15:9
and He made no distinction between us and them,
cleansing their hearts in such faith.
15:10
Well then,
why do yoů now set out to put the Elohim to test to provoke Him
by trying to put a yoke [of the demands of the Torah of Moses]
upon the neck of these [new] disciples [from among the Gentiles]
a yoke so heavy that
neither our fathers nor we have been capable to bear?
15:11
Surely the truth is that it is by the grace of the Lord Yeshua {Mashiah}
that we trust and are saved
— in the same way as those [Gentiles].”

15:12
And the whole assembled company kept quiet
as they listened to BarNabba and Paulos
relating all the signs and wonders
the Elohim had shown among the Gentiles through them.

a 15:7 yoů{/mss} ░░ {/us}

15:13
And after they stopped speaking,
Yaakob [brother of the Lord] [12:17; 21:18] responded, saying

“Fellow brethren, hear me:

15:14
Simeona [=Shimon Kefa] has explained
as how the Elohim first showed His care for the Gentiles, [⇦15:7]
to take out from among them a people dedicated to His name.
15:15
And the words of the Nevi'im agree to this;
as it is written, {Amo 9:11-12}
15:16
<“I’ll turn back after these things
and I’ll build the royal tentb of David again,
which has fallen to the ground.
And I’ll build it again from ruins.
And I will restore it:
15:17
that the rest of mankind may seek after the Adonai,
— yes, all the Gentiles who are called to bear my name”,
15:18
says Adonai, who does to bring these things
(15:18)
made known from ages ago>.

15:19
“Well then, in view of all this,
I’ve decided that we do not burden [+]c
those among the Gentiles who are turning to the Elohim
to send them a letter, instructing them
to abstain [//15:29; cf. ‘avoid’ 21:25]
▪ from things pollutedd by worship of pagan false godse
{
that is, from fornication}
▪ and from [eating meat from] strangledf animals}
{

▪ and from blood [sacrifice]g

▪ {+mss}.
15:21
Yoů see, from ancient times Moses has spokesmen
to proclaim his [teaching] h
— in every city [where there were Israelites] his words being read out aloud
in the synagogues every sabbath.”

a
15:14 Simeon ░░ [his Hebraic name differently spelt occurs only here 2Pe 1:1 v.l. and in Act 15:14.]
b
15:15 tent ░░ (Gk. skēnē in GNT & LXX, but not mishkan (‘tabernacle’), but sukkah in Heb.; /> booth; />
tabernacle (- different connotation);
c 15:19 burden [+] ░░ [+ by requiring them be circumcised]
d 15:20 things polluted ░░ [referring to meat from pagan animal sacrifice. – 15:29; 21:25]
e 15:20 pagan false gods ░░ /x: idols – most [now English word has different sense and usage.]
f 15:20, 29 strangled ░░ (//Act 21:25); [That is, blood not drained out in slaughtering.]
g 15:20 blood [sacrifice] ░░ [not related the ‘strangled’ in the preceding line, as blood in the meat of animals killed

without properly drained off]

h 15:21 his [teaching] ░░ [‘his’ – absolute pronoun in English]; /x: him - most;
15:22
Then it pleased the apostles and the elders,
with the whole Apostolic Mashian Community,
that representatives be chosen from among their number
and sent to Antioch along with Paulos and BarNabba;
So they chose Yehudah (also called BarSabbas) and Silas [=Silvanus] [1Th 1:1],
two in a leading position among the brethren.

15:23
And they wrote thus a letter to be sent by them:
"From the apostles and the elders
as well as brethren here;
To our Gentile brethren
in Antioch and SURIA and CILICIA:
Shalom.
15:24
Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us
without our orders
and have confused yoů, upsetting yoůr souls
with words,
{saying <yoů must be circumcised and keep the Torah> [15:5]},
15:25
it pleased us, having come to one accord,
to choose out men and send them to yoů
along with our beloved BarNabba and Paulos,
15:26
two men who have risked their lives
on behalf of the name of our Lord Yeshua the Mashiah.
15:27
Accordingly we have sent Yehudah and Silas,
who themselves also will give yoů
the same message personally by word of mouth.
15:28
Yoů see, it seemed to the Spirit of Holiness and to us that no burden is
to be put on yoů beyond these essentials:
15:29
that yoů are to abstain
▪ from eating meat from animal sacrifice to pagan false gods
▪ and from blood [sacrifice]
▪ {and from [eating meat from] strangled animal }
▪ and from fornication.
If yoů keep yourselves from these, it will be well with yoů.
Be strong! With our best wishes.”

15:30
So they, when they were dismissed, came down back to Antioch [in SURIA],
and having gathered the multitude together,
they delivered the letter.
15:31
And when they had read it,
they rejoiced because of its encouragement.
15:32
And Yehudah and Silas, being themselves also prophets,
encouraged the brethren with many words and supported them further.
15:33
And after they had spent some time there,
they were let go in peace from the brethren
to those who had sent them forth.
15:34
{But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.}
15:35
But Paulos and BarNabba stayed in Antioch,
teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord,
with many others also.
15:36
And after some days Paulos said to BarNabba,
“Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city
in which we have before proclaimed the word of the Lord
to see how they are doing.”

Paulos and BarNabba split

15:37
Now as for BarNabba, he wanted to take with them
Yohanan also, the one called Markos. a [12:12; 13:5]
15:38
Paulos on his part, however, did not consider it unwise to take this man
— the very one who had gone off and left them
when they were in PAMPHYLIA [⇦13:13]
instead of accompanying them
to take his part in their mission work [+]b.
15:39
Then there was a sharp disagreement over this,
and resulted in parting of their ways
and BarNabba took Markos with him;[⇨ 2Tm 4:11]
and sailed off to CYPRUS.

15:40 ff - 2nd Journey [Taking off on land from Antioch in SURIA]

a
15:38 Markos ░░ [Yohanan the one also called Markos, Yerusalemite, BarNabba’s cousin (Col 4:10),
associated with the very locus for the Judaizing party.]
b
15:38 work [+] ░░ [+ of the mission proclaiming the Gospel to the Gentiles, for which they were set apart by the
holy Spirit] (14:26) [Cf. 28:28]
Paulos’ 2nd Missionary Journey to Greece
(CE 50-52) Acts 15:36-18:22
From Antioch, through Cyria and Cilicia
Lystra
Phrygia and Galatia
Traos
Philippi (city in Macedonia)
Thessalonica (leading city in Macedonia)
Berea
Athens
Corinth – stayed 1 ½ years
Ephesus
Caesarea
Returning to Antioch (of SURIA)

[Note: the placement of labels ‘Pamphylia’ should be just below where ‘Pisidia’. Antioch – in
Pisidia; Attalia and Perga is in Pamphylia; Iconium, Lystria and Derbe in Lycaonia]
 (15:40- 18:22){Paulos’ Second Missionary Journey, 49-52 CE}
Paulos & Silas


Paulos begins his second journey with Silas
15:40
But, having chosen Silas, Paulos set out from Antioch on his journey,
being entrusted by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.
15:41 And he went through SURIA and CILICIA,
further strengthening the congregations there.

Paulos and Silas joined by Timotheos

(Acts 16)
And
16:1
then Paulos continued on to Derbe and then on to Lystra .
And look¡ a certain disciple was there, named Timotheosa,
the son of a certain Yehudi woman believer,b
but of a Greek father.
16:2
He was well-spoken of by the fellow brethren in Lystra and Iconium.
16:3
This one – Paulos wanted to go along with him;
Thus, Paulos, having taken him, did brit-milahc
[as required for any Israelite man]
so as to conciliate the Yehudim who were living in those parts:
the fact was, everyone knew that his father was a Greek.
16:4
And as they went on their way through the cities,
they delivered to those there for observance
the decrees that had been decided upon
by the apostles and elders who were in Yerusalem.
16:5
So the congregations were strengthened in the faith
and abounded in number daily.
16:6
And {after} they went through the region of PHRYGIA and GALATIA,
having been forbidden by the holy Spirit to speak the word in ASIA,
16:7
getting down toward {/mss} MYSIA they attempted to go into BITHYNIA,
but the Spirit {/mss}d did not allow them;
16:8
thus, after traversing MYSIA, they came down to Troas a seaport.

a 16:1ff Timotheos ░░ [‘God honoring’.]; /Timothy – most

b
16:1 son ef a Yehudite woman ░░ [This makes him a Yehudite (> Jew)]
c 16:3 brit-milah ░░ /(Yehudim) circumcision rite; /> circumcision
d 16:7 Spirit {/mss} ░░ {/Spirit of Yeshua pneuma Iēsou}{/Spirit of LORD}

[cf. Mashiah’s Spirit – pneuma Christou Rm 8:9; 1Pe 1:11]

(We-section I: 16:10-17) Into MACEDONIA (in Europe)
16:9@
And a vision appeared to Paulos in the night.
There was a certain man, a Macedonian,
standing before him, pleading in these words:
“Please, come over into MACEDONIA and help us.”
16:10
And after Paulos saw the vision,
we sought immediately to go forth into MACEDONIA,
concluding that the Elohim had called us to bring good news to them.

16:11
Therefore, setting sail from Troas,
we made a straight course to Samothrace Is.
 and the following day to Neapolis [to disembark there];
16:12
and from there to Philippi , a Roman colony,
which is the principle city of that part of MACEDONIA.
{/a city of the first district of}

And we stayed in this city for some days.

16:13
And on the day of one of the sabbaths
we went outside the {city} gate to a riverside,
where we thought there would be a place of prayer,
and we sat down
and began to speak to the women who had come together there.

16:14
There a certain woman named Lydia♀ listened to us,
a dealer in purple-cloth from the city called Thyatira,
a God-fearing [=convert to Yehudism],
whose heart the Lord [Yeshua] opened
to devote herself to the things which Paulos spoke.
16:15
And when she received a rite of immersion along with her household,
she pleaded with us, saying
“If yoů consider me to be a believer in the Lord,
come to my house and stay.”

Thus she pressured us.

Slave-girl possessed of a divination spirit
16:16
And it happened
as we were going to the house of prayer,
came upon us a certain servant girl
who, having a spirit of Pythona,
brought her masters a good business
by fortune-telling with divination.
16:17
It was this girl who, following after Paulos and us, kept crying out,
“These men are servants of the Elohim, the Most Highb;
they are proclaiming to yoů{/mss}c a way of salvation!”
16:18
And she went on this for number of days.

Finally, Paulos had enough of it, turned around and spoke to the spirit,
“I command you in the name of Yeshua the Mashiah —
to come out of her!”
d
And it came out of her at once.

Paulos and Silas got imprisoned

16:19
But when her masters saw
their hope of money-making was gone,
they seized Paulos and Silas
and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
16:20
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said,
“These men are Yehudim and greatly disturb our city,
16:21
and advocating customs
which it is not allowed for us to accept or to practice,
since we are Romans.”
16:22
And the crowd rose up together against the two, Paulos and Silas.
And after ripping the clothes off them.
the magistrates then ordered to beat them up with rods.
16:23
And after inflicting many stripes upon them,
they were thrown into the prison
and the jailor were ordered to guard them securely.
16:24
Having received such an order,
he threw them into the inner cell [of the pitch-dark bowels]
and fastened their feet in the wooden stocks.○p

a
16:16 Python ░░ [in Greek mythology; a demonic spirit of divination]
b
16:17 Elohim the Most High ░░ [Heb. - El `Elyon]; /x: the Most High God – most;
/x: the most high God – KJV; /
c
16:18 yoů {/mss} ░░ {/us}
d
16:18 came out at once ░░ [compare performance of modern common con jobs of
‘expelling demonic spirits in the name of Jesus’.]
The prison broken open on earthquake
16:25
But about midnight Paulos and Silas were praying
and singing-hymns to the Elohim; [Jam 5:13]
and the other prisoners were listening to them;
16:26
and suddenly there was a great earthquake,
so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken
and instantly all the doors were opened
and every one's chains were loosed.
16:27
The jailer, being awakened from sleep
and seeing the prison doors were open,
drew his sword and was about to kill himself,
thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
16:28
But Paulos shouted with a loud voice, saying
“Don’t you harm yourself!
All of us are here!”

16:29
And he asked for lights and dashed in
and, trembling, came to fall before Paulos and Silas.
16:30
And, having brought them out, he said,
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” a
16:31
And they said,
“Put your trustb on the Lord Yeshua {Mashiah}
and you shall be savedc, you and your household.”
16:32
Then, they spoke the word of the Elohim d
to him together with all those of his household.
16:33
And having taken them out at that hour-of-the-nighte,
he had the wounds of their stripes washed off.
And there he and all his household
all came to receive immersion rites right away.
16:34
After that the jailor brought them up to his house
and laid a table for them
and rejoiced greatly with all his household
having come to believe the Elohim.
16:35
But when day came, the civil-magistrates dispatched the constables,
saying “Release those men!”

a
16:30 be saved ░░ [Cf. what does it mean by ‘saved’?]
b
16:31 put trust on ░░ /believe on; [not just ‘trust Him’] [Cf. What does it mean to ‘believe (on) Jesus?
Confessing faith? Accepting church creeds or formula given out? Is it ‘Jesus’? Which Jesus? Whose Jesus?]
c
16:31-32 shall get saved ░░ [not ‘you are saved’. It is to be in the process with instruction with the word
of the Lord.
d
16:32 word of Elohim [+] ░░ [+] [to be received is the word about Yeshua – who He is, what He has
done.] (Cf. 10:34-43) {/mss} {of the Lord} [Cf. v. 34 ‘believe Elohim’]
e
16:33 hour-of-the-night ░░ [cf. ‘hour-period as on a sundial’ during daytime.]
16:36
And the jailor reported the words to Paulos, saying
“The magistrates have dispatched men to release yoů.
Easy now, come out and go on yoůr way {in peace}.”
16:37
But Paulos said to the constables,
“They had us beaten in public
without having convicted of anything wrong
— although we are Roman citizens —
and have thrown us into prison,
and now secretly they are throwing us out?
No way!
Instead, they themselves must come down here
and escort us out!”
16:38
And the constables reported these words to the magistrates
and they became fearful
when they heard that these men were Roman citizens;
16:39
Thus they came down and pleaded with them,
and as they brought them out, they asked them to leave the city.
16:40
From there, when Paulos and others came out of the prison
they went to Lydia’s home
and when they saw the brethren there
they encourage them and then departed.

(Acts 17)

17:1
Now, they had journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
and came to Thessalonica ,
where there was a synagogue of the Yehudim:
17:2
and Paulos, as his custom, went to their meetings
and for three sabbath-days he reasoned with them
from the TaNaKh Scripture,
17:3
explaining and pointing out to them
that it is necessary for the Mashiaha [the anointed One by the Elohim]
to suffer and to rise from among the dead,
and that this Yeshua, whom I myself proclaim to yoů,
is in fact the very Mashiah [yoů’ve been waiting for].
17:4
And some of them and of the devout Greeks
a great crowd and of the chief women not a few, were persuaded
and associated themselves with Paulos and Silas.
17:5
But the non-believing Yehudim, took to them
certain evil men from among the market-loafers
and gathering a crowd, made the city into an uproar,

a
17:3 Mashiah ░░ /xx: Christ (- anachronistic);
 and standing up against the house of Jason,
they sought to bring them forth to the public.
17:6
And when they did not find them,
they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the city-rulers, crying,
“These who have upset the world* have come here also;
17:7
And Jason has received them with hospitality
and these all practice things which are against the decrees of Caesar,
saying that there is another king, one Yeshua.”
17:8
And they disturbed the crowd and city-rulers, when they heard these things.
17:9
And when they had taken bail from Jason and the rest,
they released them.
17:10
And the brethren at once sent Paulos and Silas off
by night to Berea [the capital of MACEDONIA]:
who when they had come there,
they went into the synagogue of the Yehudim.
17:11
Now these were nobler than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all eagerness,
examining the TaNaKh Scripture daily,
to see if these things were so.
17:12
Thus, many of them came to believe, including not a few of Greeks
from among women of nobility, also men as well.
17:13
But when the Yehudim in Thessalonica learned that
also at Berea the word of the Elohim was being proclaimed by Paulos,
they went down there too
and began to cause disturbance among the crowds.

Paulos leaves Silas and Timotheos behind

17:14
At once the fellow brethren sent Paulos off as far as the sea coast;
 left behind there were both Silas and Timotheos.

17:15
Those who were escorting Paulos brought him as far as Athens
then returned carrying an instruction
for Silas and Timotheos to rejoin him as soon possible. [18:5]

17:16
There, in Athens while Paulos was waiting for them,
he became deeply disturbed in his spirit at sight of the city
so rampant of false gods being worshipped.
17:17
So, in the synagogue he carried on debates
with the Yehudim and Gentile Elohim-worshipers;
and every day in the city square
it was with those who happened to come across.
17:18
There were a few among Epicurean as well as Stoicism philosophers
who came to engage in dispute with him,
some remarking,
<What is this idle babbler trying to say?>
Others said,
<It seems to be some novel foreign deities
that he is advocating. Sounds interesting enough.>
((They would say in such a way
because Paulos was bringing good news
of ‘Yeshua’ and the ‘resurrection’.))
17:19
And so it came that they got Paulos
and brought him to the Areopagus [Council],
asking
“Is there any way of knowing about
this new teaching you are giving?
17:20
After all, you bring some subjects
which sound strange to our ears.
We should like to know what they mean.”
17:21
((There, all Athenian citizens
and likewise foreign residents
used to spend their time in nothing else
than talking about something new or listening to.))
17:22
Paulos, then, standing in the midst of the Areopagus Council,
began to speak as follows:

“Athenians! I have seen for myself

how every ‘which’ way yoů do seem remarkably ‘religious’.
17:23
And indeed, as I was going through the city
and observing the objects of yoůr veneration,
I found even an altar with this inscription on:
<TO UNKNOWN GOD>.
Now what you venerate, without even knowing what it is,
is the very thing which I am proclaiming to yoů:
17:24
The very Elohim that made the world and all the things in it,
the very One, being Lord of heaven and earth,
does not dwell in any hand-made sanctuaries;
17:25
nor He allows men to serve Him by human hands,
as if He has need of anything,
Yoů see, He Himself is the One who is giving to all beings,
— be it life and breath and everything else;
17:26
and out of one {blood-line} He made all nations of hmen
to dwell on all the face of the earth,
having determined their appointed seasons
and the limits of their dwelling-place;
 17:27
so that they would seek the Elohim
— if in fact they really grope after Him
they may find Him,
and in fact, He is not far from us, each one of us:
17:28
as even some of yoůr own poets have said:
<And indeed, it is in Him that we live and move
and have our very being>;
and, <we also are indeed of His familya.>
17:29
Being then the offspring of the Elohim,
we ought not to think
that to something of gold, silver, or stone
— carved out by craft and imagination of mortal human —
does that deityb bears any semblance.
17:30
True, as to such times when people were ignorant of the Elohim,
He has dealt with it as though it had never been;
But, what He now preaches to people everywhere is
that they must all turn their hearts to God’s wayc:[Cf. 26:20; 20:21; cf. 3:19]
17:31
because He has set a [coming] day
when He is going to judge the inhabited-earth
and do it with divine justice
by a Man [Yeshua] of His own choosing [for this task].
Moreover, here is a sure proof
Elohim has given of this to all people [to come to faith]
by having raised Him to Life from among the dead!”

17:32
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead,
some mocked;
but others said,
“We will hear you about this yet again.”
17:33
Thus Paulos went out of their midst.
17:34
But certain men joined themselves to him and became believers.
Among them also were
 Dionysius the Areopagited
♀
 even a woman named Damaris  and others with them.

a 17:28 of family░░ /> offspring; /> children;

b 17:29 that deity ░░ \Gk. ho theios; /> divine-being; /x: *Godhead – KJV; /the aforementioned God – Wuste; [adj.
‘divine’ – 2Pe 1:3, 4]
c 17:30 turn their hearts ░░ /> *repent; [not ‘feel remorse’, ‘regret’, or ‘repair’, or ‘fixing’.]
d
17:34 Areopagite ░░ [a judge of court of the Areopagus – NWT]
(Acts 18)
18:1
After these things Paulos departed from Athens
and came to Corinth . [50 CE]
18:2
And he found a certain Yehudi named Aquila,
a native of Pontus,
who recently had come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla,
because Emperor Claudius had ordered all the Yehudim
to be expelled from Rome.[49 CE]
And Paulos approached them,
18:3
and {on finding that they were tent-makers},
of the same trade by trade as himself,
he made his home with them,
and they did the work together{/mss}.
18:4
Now, every sabbath Paulos would find chance to address in the synagogue
to persuade them, both Yehudim and Gentile people.
Paulos re-joined by Silas and Timotheos
18:5
Once, both Silas and Timotheos [as they were told to come and rejoin] had arrived
from [Beroea in] MACEDONIA, [17:15]
Paulos then got himself devoted in full time to proclaiming the Word,
witnessing to the Yehudim to prove that
the very Mashiah [they have been expecting eagerly] is
[to be found in the person of] Yeshua.

18:6
But, when the Yehudim kept on opposing and reviling him,
Paulos finally said to them,
shaking [dust] off his clothes [as a gesture of protest],
“Yoůr ‘blood be upon yoůr own heads’!
As for me, I am now clean of this obligation to yoů:
from now on it is to the Gentiles that I shall [better] move on!”
18:7
So he left there
and went on to the house of a certain man named {Titus} Justus,
a Gentile worshipper of the Elohim,
whose house was adjoining the synagogue.
18:8
Crispus, [one of] the presiding officers of the local synagogue
— he himself, now came to believe the Lord [Yeshua]
together with his entire household.
Moreover many of the Corinthians that listened to Paulos
came to believe and got immersed [into Yeshua].

18:9a
Now, the Lord [Yeshua] said to Paulos in the night by a vision,
“Have no fear,
18:10a
because I am with you
and no one is going to lay hands on you to badly harm you;
18:9b
but keep on speaking out and do not keep silent:
18:10b
because there are many here in this city who are to belong to me;
[they are hungry for the Good News to hear] .”

18:11
And he settled there to be staying a year and six months [there in Corinth],
teaching the word of the Elohim among them:
{Paulos’ 1st & 2nd Thessalonians written from here. Poss. Galatians}

Interlude: Paulos before Gallio

18:12
There, notable was this incident:
With Gallio as [CE 51-52] of ACHAIAa,
the Yehudim got together to round up Paulos
and drag him before the magistrate’s judicial bench,
18:13
saying
“he is trying to persuade people into venerating the Elohim
in a way contrary to our own Torah.”
18:14
But when Paulos was about to open his mouth to speak,
Gallio was the one got in and
said to the Yehudim,
“If it were indeed a matter about wrong-doing against the law,
or perhaps some evil deeds,
O yoů Yehudim, it would be reasonable for me
to give yoů a hearing upon your complaint,
18:15
but if it is a matter of disputes
about words and ‘names’ [to call upon],
yes, about yoůr own Torah,
yoů should settle it yourselves;
I on my part do not want to be a judge over such matters!”
18:16
And he drove them away from the judicial bench.
18:17
Then they all got hold of Sosthenes,
another presiding officer of the synagogue,
and gave him beating in front of the judicial bench.

Yes, none of these things were any concern to Gallio.

a
18:12 Achaia ░░ [a Roman province, in present-day southern Greece]
 Paulos sails for Ephesus with Priscilla and Aquilla
18:18a
And after this incident Paulos stayed on some time longer
[+ thus, his whole stay in Corinth lasted one and a half year]. [18:11]

c
((After having his long-grown hair shorn off
in the port city Cenchreae [7 miles E of Corinth]
— it was that he had taken a vow some time before —
b
 he said farewell to the brethren{/mss},
from there he set sail bound for SURIA,
taking ♀Priscilla and Aquila with him.

18:19
And [from there] they reached at Ephesus;
and, disembarking, he dropped them (Priscilla and Aquilla) off there.
He then went by himself to the synagogue
and, entering, addressed to the fellow Yehudim there.
18:20
And though they asked him to spend more time with them,
he could not be persuaded;
18:21
instead, said farewell them and saying
“{it is necessary for me by all means
to keep the coming festival at Yerusalem}
but again I shall return to yoů, the Elohim willing.”

He set sail from Ephesus. [Note: comes back again later on his third journey – 19:1]

18:22
And when he got landed at Caesarea Maritima , he went up [to Yerusalem]
and greeted the congregation of Apostolic Mashian Community there
and then went down [from Yerusalem] returning to Antioch [in SURIA]
[+ where he started and now was ending his long second journey].
[Note: the placement of labels ‘Pamphylia’ should be just below where ‘Pisidia’. Antioch
– in Pisidia; Attalia and Perga is in Pamphylia; Iconium, Lystria and Derbe in Lycaonia]

18:22ff - 3nd Journey: [Taking off on foot from Antioch in SURIA] 53 – 57 CE

18:23
And having spent some time there [in Antioch in SURIA],
he set out
 and went through the [highland] region of GALATIA and PHRYGIA, afterwards,
further supporting all the disciples.
 Interlude: Apollos’ mission
18:24
Meanwhile, a certain Yehudia, named Apollos, a native of Alexandria,
arrived at Ephesus
— an eloquent man, well-versed in the Tanakh Scripture.
18:25
Having been instructed in the Wayb of the Lord Yeshua {Cf. v.26},[cf. 9:2;19:9, 24:14]
and being fervent as to the spiritc,
he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Yeshua,
although he was acquainted only with immersion rites
done in the manner of Yohanan’s: [19:3]
18:26
and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue;
but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
they took him aside and expounded to him
the Way of the Elohim {Cf. v.25} more accurately.
18:27
And when Apollos had set his mind on crossing over
into the province of ACHAIA,
the fellow brethren encouraged him
and wrote to the disciples there
asking them to give him a cordial welcome.
And when Apollos arrived there,
he proved to be a great assistance to those
who had, by God's grace, come to believe in Mashiah;
18:28
indeed, he refuted the Yehudim in public with vigor,
showing by the Tanakh Scripture
that the very Mashiah [they had been expecting eagerly]
was [to be found in the person of] Yeshua Himself.[//18:5]

a
18:24 Yehudi ░░ /Yehudite; /x: Jew;
b 18:25 ‘the Way of the Lord’ Yeshua ░░ [cf. Simply ‘the Way’ in 9:2; 19:9; 24:14. See fn 9:2] [Cf. ‘the Way of
Elohim’ v. 26.] [Cf. It is not ‘Christianity’ which is the term covering of all the Christian religions/faiths (Christianisms)
from the 2nd century on.] [See BW ‘*Christianity’ ‘Mashianity’]
c
18:25 as to the spirit ░░ /in spirit – most; /x: with the spirit – NWT; /
(Acts 19)
Paulos came to Ephesus
19:1 {18:24}
And it came to pass that, while [this] Apollos [having left Ephesus]
was now over there at Corinth,
Paulos on his part, having gone through [GALATIA and PHRYGIA,]
the highland regions of the country,
came down to Ephesus
and found there some learners of the Waya. [Cf. 18:25]
19:2
And he asked them, saying:
“Have yoů received holy spiritb
when yoů first came to believe {+mss}?”
And they said to him,
“Nay, we have not even heard that
[is there] such a thing as holy spiritc!?”
19:3
And he said,
“Then, into what sortd of immersion did yoů get immersed?”
And they said [as taught by Apollos[18:25] when he was there],
“into the immersion rites after Yohanan’s.”e
19:4
And Paulos said,
“Yohanan immersed them in the immersion rite
calling for turning their hearts to God’s way,
telling the people to come to believe in the One
coming after him, that is, coming Yeshuaf.”
19:5
And when they heard this,
theyg were immersed intoh the name of the Lord Yeshua.
19:6
And when Paulos had laid his hands upon them,
the [gift of] holy spirit [which they were told about] came upon them,
and they began speaking in [their] languages
to proclaim messagesi [of what Elohim had revealed]. [← 2:4; 10:46]
19:7
And they were about twelve men in all.
19:8
Over a period of three months he attended the synagogue
and spoke up boldly,

a
19:1 learners of the Way ░░ /disciples – most; [Gk. mathētēs, learner, pupil, student. Heb. talmidim]; /
b
19:2 holy spirit ░░ /xx: the Holy Ghost – KJV; /x: the Holy Spirit – most; /
c
19:2 holy spirit ░░ /x: any Holy Ghost – KJV; /xx: the Holy Spirit – most; /x: a holy spirit – NWT;
d
19:3 into what sort of ░░ [not ‘whose baptism’.]
e
19:3 into immersion rites after Yohanan’s ░░ [not ‘Yohanan’s baptism’ they got.]
f
19:5 Yeshua ░░ {/Yeshua the Mashiah - /Christ Jesus - KJV}
g
19:5 they ░░ [these were of Yehudim God-believers; not the nation as in Mt 28:19.]
h
19:5 immersed into the name of ░░ [= 8:16; ‘into the covenant reality of’. //Mt 28:19b.][Not to be
confused with ‘immersed in the name of’ 10:48. See ‘in the name of’ in BW.]
i 19:6 proclaim messages ░░ (prophēteuō) /> prophesy;
 addressing and persuading them
concerning the Kingdom reign of the Elohim.
19:9
But when some were hardened and disbelieved,
speaking-evil of the Way before the crowd, [19:2, 24:14; cf. 18:25]
he withdrew from them and took the disciples away,
then he addressed daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

19:10
And this went on for two years in Ephesus
as Paulos stayed there;
so that all those living in the Roman Province ASIA
had heard the word of the Lord {Yeshua},
both Yehudim and Hellenic alike.

Paulos’ mighty works; Sons of Scaeva

19:11
And the Elohim kept performing extraordinary mighty-works
through the hands of Paulos:
19:12
so-that even sweat-cloths or work-aprons taken off from his body
were brought to the sick,
there the diseases left them
and the evil spirits departed {from them}.
19:13
There, some itinerant Yehudi exorcists also got on
to invoke the name of the Lord Yeshua
over those possessed by the evil spirits, saying <I adjure{/mss}a yoů —
by ‘this Yeshua whom Paulos proclaims’>.
19:14
((There indeed were seven sons
to {a certain} Scaeva, a Yehudite, [acting as] a chief priest
— who were doing this{/mss}b.))
19:15
And in response the evil spirit said to them,
“This Yeshua — {indeed} I know
and this Paulos — I recognize;
but yoů — who are yoů all?”
19:16
With that, the man with the evil spirit jumped on them
and mastered and overpowered them{/mss}c,
so-that they fled naked and wounded out of that house.
19:17
And this became known to all,
both the Yehudim and the Greeks, who dwelt at Ephesus,
and fear fell upon them all
and the name of the Lord Yeshua went on being magnified.
19:18
Many of those becoming believers
came forward confessing-openly and declaring their former practices.

a
19:13 I adjure{/mss}░░ {/we adjure}
b
19:14 seven sons to{a certain} Scaeva, a Yehudatie, acting as a chief priest who were doing
this{/mss}░░ {/~ sons to Scaeva, a certain chief priest}
c
19:16 them{/mss} ░░ {> /both}
19:19
And not only a few of those who used to practice magical arts
brought their books together
and burned them in the sight of public;
and they calculated the price of them
and found them worth fifty thousand pieces of silver.
19:20
So the word of the Lord{/mss}a grew in might and prevailed with power.

Paulos resolved to move on

19:21
Now after these things have taken their course,
Paulos set his hear on going to Yerusalem,
and to do so by way of MACEDONIA and ACHAIA,
remarking that “After that, I must see Rome as well>.
19:22
So he sent to MACEDONIA two of his assistants, Timotheos and Erastus,
while he himself stayed there in [the province of] ASIA for a while longer.
{Paulos’ First Letter to the Corinthians – written here 55-56 CE}

Disturbance in Ephesus
19:23
Now it was about this time
that what was now being referred to as “the Way” b [9:2; 24:14]
became the cause of no small disturbance.
19:24
Here is what happened:
there was a certain silversmith man, Demetrius by name,
who was making silver-replicas of
shrines of [Greek goddess] Artemisc,
bringing a considerable business for his craftsmen.
19:25
There, he gathered them and those who worked at such things and said,

“Yoů all! You realize very well

how our prosperity depends on this particular line of trade.
19:26
Now yoů have been watching and hearing for yourselves,
not only here in Ephesus
but nearly all over the province of ASIA,
how Paulos, this fellow, set out to mislead the people
and succeeded in winning over large number of them
to his specious position
that the gods made by man’s hands are no gods at all.
19:27
But that’s not all as he has exposed us to the danger
that our line of trade might fall apart into disrepute,
but also that it is the temple of the great goddess Artemis itself
that should come to be looked down
as nothing worth to be reckoned.

a
19:20 Lord {/mss} ░░ {/God - Vulgate}
b
19:23 ‘The Way’ ░░ [= 9:2; 24:14] [i.e. ‘the Way of Mashiah (> God)’ = ‘teaching of Mashiah’). Cf. the
term ‘Christianity’ is often confused with a religion, or robed with religions.]
c
19:24 Artemis ░░ [Greek goddess; daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo = Roman
goddess ‘Diana’, of the hunt, the moon and birthing.] [her magnificent temple was just outside the city of
Ephesus – one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) [ www.unmuseum.org/ephesus.htm ]
 Even further, her greatness itself might get degraded
— the goddess who is venerated throughout the province of ASIA,
yeah, the whole inhabited-world.”
19:28
And when they heard this they became furious angry,
and {running out to the street} shouted,
“Great is Artemis, goddess of the Ephesians!”
19:29
And the city was stirred up with uproar
and the crowd rushed all together into the amphitheater,
having with them dragging along the two Macedonians,
Gaius and Aristarchus, Paulos’ traveling companions.
19:30
On his part, Paulos wanted to go inside among the public assembly,
but the disciples of the Way did not let him.
19:31
And even some of friendly local provincial officials sent a message to him
to plead with him not to risk into the amphitheater.
19:32
Now, some cried one thing and some another:
for | the assembly was in confusion,
and most did not know why they had come together.
19:33
And when the Yehudim thrusted Alexander up front
some of the crowd together prompted him.
Thus Alexander, motioning with his hand,
wanted to make a defense to the public.
19:34
But when they found that he was a Yehudi,
one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying,
“Great is Artemis, goddess of Ephesians!”
19:35
And having finally calmed the crowd, the town sofer says,

“Gentlemen, Ephesians!
Who is there not knowing
that the city of the Ephesians is the shrine-guardian
for the great goddess Artemis
as well as of her image which fell down from Zeusa?
19:36
Therefore, these facts being undeniable,
it is necessary for yoů to calm down
and to refrain from doing anything rash.
19:37
For | yoů have brought here these men,
who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
19:38
Therefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him,
have a matter against anyone,
the lower-courts are open and there are proconsuls to appeal to;
let them bring their charges and counter-charges.
19:39
But if yoů require anything beyond that,
then it must be resolved in the lawful assembly.

a 19:35 Zeus ░░ [= Jupiter in Roman mythology]

19:40
The fact is that we do indeed run the risk
of being charged with rioting over today’s event
particularly as there is no single excuse to offer,
and if the matter be brought forward,
it is impossible for us to account for this disorderly gathering of people.”
19:41
After having spoken these things, he dismissed the assembly.

(Acts 20)
Through Macedonia
20:1 And when the disturbance was over,
Paulos called for the disciples.
After encouraging them he said farewell, {? Paulos’ letter (2Co); 56-57 CE}
 and left [Ephesus] to set out on his journey [1Ti 1:3]
 to [the province of] MACEDONIA [of Greece].
20:2
And as he was going through those regions
he gave many words of encouragement to the followers there,
and so made his way into [the province ACHAIA of] Greece.
 Return trip of Paulos’ Third Journey on His Mission

20:3
There Paulos made his stay [in Corinth] three months.
{Paulos’ Letter to the Romans from here}

20:3b
Because some Yehudim made a further plot against him
as he was about to set sail for SURIA [from there],
Paulos decided to make his return journey [home]
[taking a detour] through MACEDONIA [instead].
20:4
And these were accompanying him {as far as into ASIA}:
Sopater, {the son of Pyrrhus} — from Beroeaa;
as well as Aristarchus and Secundus — from Thessalonica;
and Gaius — from Derbe;
and Timotheos;
plus Tychicus and Trophimus [21:29] — from [the province of] ASIA.

(We-section II: 20:4-16)

 Leaving GREECE
20:5
These on their part proceeded ahead of us,
and it was arranged that they were to await for us at Troas [in MYSIA] [cf. 16:8]

20:6
while we on our part put the ship out to sea
after the days of the Matzah Festival b

at Neapolis, seaport [10miles SE] of Philippi

 Later, we joined them up at the very Troas c within five days
where we stayed seven days.

a 20:4 Berea ░░ [spells also ‘Beroea’]

b 20:6 Matzah Festival ░░ [12:3]
c 20:6 Troas ░░ [16:8-11; 2Co 2:14; 2Ti 4:13];
20:7-12 Story of Eutychus
20:7
While, on the day one of the [lunar] weeka [cf. v. 16]

when we gathered [in the evening] for breaking of breadb,[⇨v. 11a]

Paulos began talkingc to those who had assembled;
he kept on giving his talk until midnight,
intending to depart on the next day.[⇨v. 11b]

20:8
This was what happened:
There, quite a few oil-lamps were lit in the upstairs room
where we were gathered together.
20:9
And seated on the window sill was
a certain young lad named Eutychus//‘Lucky’,
sinking into a deep sleep as Paulos talked on.
Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story
and was picked up [appearing as] dead [to them].
20:10
And Paulos on his part went downstairs,
threw himself on the young-lad
and, holding him in his arms, he exclaimed,
“Stop making ado; yoů see, he is still alive.”

20:11
And Paulos went back upstairs
and then broke bread and took it. [⇦v.7]
He continued to talk with them for quite a while
until daybreak
and then he departed [from us].[v.13]

20:12
((As for the boy they brought back home alive
and they found themselves immeasurably relieved.))

a
20:7 day one of the lunar week ~ gathered in the evening ░░ (after a day’s work) [on the 2nd of the next month; not
the 1st day the month]; [not related to ‘Sunday’ (first day of the solar week), the worship day of Constantine Church.]
b 20:7 breaking of bread ░░ [having a meal together (as in Lk 24:35) – here it was for the evening meal (cf. ‘continued

speech until midnight’). Not related to the Lord’s Supper.]

c
20:7, 9 began talking ░░ (on something not explicit); /xxx: preached – KJV;
 Voyage from Troas to Miletus
20:13
We on our part, then, went on ahead
to board the seafaring ship and set sail from Troas to Assos
where we were to take Paulos aboard from there
as he had ordered it so,
because he wanted to get there by himself on foot.

20:14
And so we took him aboard when he caught up with us at Assos ,
and, from there, proceeded to Mitylene .
20:15
And sailing from there the following day we arrived opposite CHIOS (Is.),
and the next day we touched at SAMOS (Is.),
 {and remained at Trogyllium},
a
and on the day after we came to Miletus .
20:16
The fact was that Paulos had already decided to sail past Ephesus,
as he did not want to spend time there in [the Province of] ASIA.
He meant to make haste because he was anxious to be in Yerusalem
by the Day of Shavuot [⇦ v. 7a], if that were possible.b

(20:17ff Addressing to the elders)

Addressing to elders from Ephesus
20:17
Thus, while at
Miletus,
Paulos sent off a message to Ephesus to summon
the elders of the congregation [of the Apostolic Mashian Community]
to come down to see him.
20:18
And when they had arrived, he addressed them in these words,

“Yoů yourselves, I’m sure, well know that

— from the first day I set foot into [the Province of] ASIA,
 how I was the whole time with yoů,
20:19
serving the Lord with much humility, in tears,
and through trials of hardship I had to endure
because of the plots by the Yehudim;
20:20
yoů know how I have never shrunk back from telling yoů anything
that yoů might benefit
as telling and teaching yoů
publicly as well as in the homes, c,
20:21
testifying both to Yehudim and to Greeks
 about turning their heart to God’s way
 and about coming to believe
in our Lord Yeshua the Mashiah.

a 20:16 Miletus ░░ [a coastal city about 30 miles S. of Ephesus]

b 20:16 Shavuot ░░ /> ‘Pentecost’; [in 56 CE, a sabbatical year]
c 20:20 in the homes ░░ [i.e. privately] /x: house to house – most; /
 20:22
“And now, see, bound in the spirit,
I am going up to Yerusalem,
not knowing what will I face there:
20:23
except this, that the Spirit of Holiness leaves me
in no doubt that, city after city,
imprisonments and hardships are waiting for me there.
20:24
Still, as far as my whole beinga is concerned,
not a bit I consider it worthy as dear to myself;
it matters so long as I should finish {with joy}
[running] the race laid out for me
and [complete] the task
which the Lord Yeshua has given to me,
that is, to bear thorough witness to the Gospel
which proclaims the grace of the Elohim.
20:25
And look¡ among yoů I have gone about
proclaiming the Kingdom reign of the Elohim;
now, I know that
none of yoů will see my face again.
20:26
That being so, I assure yoů solemnly this very day,
that I am clean of anyone’s blood —
responsible for no man’s perished soul.
20:27
Yoů see, I have not held back
from telling yoů the whole plan of the Elohim.
20:28
Be on yoůr guard for yourselves and for all the flock,
among which the Spirit of Holiness has made yoů as overseersb,
to shepherd the Mashian Community of the Elohimc
 who securedd it for Himself
with the blood of his own Son. [Cf. Rm 3:25]e
20:29
I know that, when I am gone,
ravenous wolves will come into among yoů,
and will not spare the flock from devouring;
20:30
yes, even from among yourselves | some men will come out,
uttering things perverting truths,
to draw away the disciples after them
[and making them over to their side].

a 20:24 whole being ░░ (psuchē); /soul; /life;

b 20:28 as overseers ░░ (episkopos – ‘supervisor’); /xx: bishops – ASV, GW, DRB, JUB, Murdock; /
c 20:28 the Mashian Community of Elohim ░░ /God’s Messianic community– JNT; />> the church of God – most;

[See Appendix in Study-ready edition for textual and translation problem]

d 20:28 secured for Himself ░░ [God secured for God himself]; /xx: purchased; /x: acquired; (wrong metaphor).
e 20:28 blood of His own Son ░░ [Signifying the redemptive death of Yeshua, God's own Son (Mt 26:28 //Mk 14:24

//Lk 22:20; 1Jn 1:7; Eph 1:7; Heb 13:12; Col 1:14; Rev 1:5)]; /xxx: ‘God’s blood’ – unbiblical pagan idea (Ignatius);
[See Appendix Textual and translation problem of Act 20.28. in IRENT V. III Supplement (Collections #2)]
 20:31
“Therefore, keep yourselves alert,
remembering that for three whole years, night or day,
even with tears in my eyes
I did not cease to admonish each of yoů.
20:32
And now I’m putting yoů elders to the care of Elohim {/mss},
and to the [whole Gospel] message of His grace,
— the message which is able to build yoů up [to grow mature]
and to give yoů the promised share
— to yoů among all those
who are consecrated to Elohim.
20:33
Silver or gold or clothing [to sustain me] —
these things I have never asked for to anyone;
20:34
yoů yourselves know well enough
that these very hands [of my own] have provided my needs
and the needs of those who were with me.
20:35
In all things I have always shown yoů by my example
how, by one’s own laboring,
we ought to help the weak
and to remember the words of the Lord Yeshua,
how He Himself said,
<It is more blessed to give than to receive.> a …”

20:36
And when Paulos finished speaking,
having knelt down with them all he prayed.
20:37
And all of them wept and wept;
and they hugged him with farewell kisses
20:38
being-pained by his saying
that they are going to see his face no longer.
They then accompanied him to the ship.

a 20:35 to give than to receive ░░ [purpose of work is to have it to give.] [Cf. Mt 6:20; Lk 6:38; Eph 4:28; Prv 11:24]
(Acts 21)
To Phoenicia

(We-section III: 21:1-18)

21:1 And it came to pass
 when having parted from them and had set sail at Miletus,
we made a straight course to COS (Is.)
and the next day to the port city of Rhodes (on the same named island)
 and from there to Patara [on the mainland opposite to Rhodes]:

21:2
and having found a ship crossing over to PHOENICIA,
we boarded and set sail.
21:3
And when CYPRUS (Is.) sighted,
we passed it larboard,
 and sailed to SURIA and brought the ship in at Tyre ;
for | the ship was to unload her cargo there.
21:4
And having found the disciples,
we remained there seven days
and these said to Paulos prompted through the Spirit,
[rather] not to be going up to Yerusalem.
21:5
And it came to pass when we had completed the days,
we departed and went on our journey,
and all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city.
And having knelt down on the shore,
we prayed,

21:6
and having hugged one another for farewell, we boarded the ship,
and they returned to their own homes.

21:7
And continuing our voyage we left Tyre,
 we arrived [and landed] at Ptolemais,
and we greeted the brethren and stayed the night with them.
Return trip of Paulos’ Third Journey on His Mission
21:8
And on the next day
we {/Paulos’ traveling companions} left
and came to Caesarea [to end a long journey]
and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist,
who was one of ‘the Seven’[cf.6:5], we stayed with him
21:9
((— by the way this man had four unmarried daughtersa
with the gift of prophesying.))

21:10
And while we were staying there several days,
there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

a 21:9 unmarried daughters░░ (thugateres parthenoi) - GNB, CEV, ERV; /> *virgin daughters – most;
21:11
And having come to us
He took Paulos’ belt and bound his own feet and hands with it
and said,
“Thus says the Spirit of Holiness:
<The Judean authority at Yerusalem will bind this way
the man who owns this belt
and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.>”
21:12
And when we heard these things,
both we and those living there pleaded with him not to go up to Yerusalem.
21:13
Then Paulos answered,
“What are yoů doing, weeping and breaking my heart?
For | I am ready not only to be bound,
but even to die in Yerusalem for the sake of the name of the Lord Yeshua.”
21:14
And when he was not persuaded, we did not push any more, saying
“May the Lord’s will be done.”

To Yerusalem
21:15
And the days of our visit having come to an end,
we packed up and set out for Yerusalem.
21:16
accompanied by some of the disciples from Caesarea,
escorting us as far as the house where we were to stay.
It belonged to a man called Mnason, a native of Cyprus,
a disciple in the faith from the early days.
21:17
And when we had come to Yerusalem,
the brethren gave us a hearty welcome.
21:18
And the following day Paulos took us with him
to pay a visit to Yaakob [brother of the Lord] [12:17; 15:13]

[who was in charge of the Yerusalem Mashian Community],

all the elders [of the Mashian Community] being assembled in place.

21:19
And after exchanging greetings with them
Paulos gave full account of what the Elohim had done
among the Gentiles through his ministry.
21:20
And, when they heard this, they gave praise to the Elohim, and said to Paulos,
“Brother, you are no doubt aware how many have become believers
tens of thousands among the people of Yehudim faith!
Yes, all of them have zeal for the Torah:
21:21
At the same time they have been informed about you,
that you teach all the Yehudim living among the Gentiles
to turn away from Moses’ teaching,
by telling them not to have their children brit-milaha
and not to follow our [solemn] religious traditions handed down to them.

a
21:21 have ~ brit-milah ░░ /give ~ circumcision rites; /> circumcise ~;
 21:22
What are we then to do?
Assuredly they’re bound to hear that you’ve come
{— a multitude is going to come together.}
21:23
So, this is what you must do as we tell you:
there are with us four men
– themselves each having taken a [Nazarite] vow.
21:24
Take them along with you
and join them in their purification rite;
Yeah, also take care of their expense incurred in having taken this vow
[+ for offering the burnt sacrifices] so that they may end their vow
and will then have their long-grown hairs shorn off
[+ at the end of the purification period].
In that way, everyone will know that
there is nothing of substance
in what they have been told about you;
but you live, yourself keeping the Torah as you should.
21:25
As for the Gentiles who have become believers,
we have written to them
giving our decision we have come to
— that they should avoid to be on guard [15:20, 29 ‘abstain’]
▪ against eating meat from sacrificed animal to pagan false gods
▪ and against blood [sacrifice]
▪ and against [eating meat from] strangled animals}
▪ and against sexual immoralitya.” [//15:20; //15:29]

21:26
Then taking these men the next day,
having gone through purification rite himself as well
along with them [required for ending of their Nazarite vow]
Paulos went into the Miqdash and let the kohen know that,
as soon as the required days of the purification for them end,
the offering would be presented for each of them. [Nm 6:9-20]

{Paulos’ Journey to Rome – 21:27-28:16}

21:27
And when the seven day period [of the purification rite]
was about to be ending,
the Yehudim from [the Province of] ASIA
spotted Paulos in the Miqdash.
They began to get all the crowd stirred up
to lay hands on him,

a 21:25 sexual immorality ░░ (Act 15:20, 29); /fornication – KJV (Jn 8:41) [Cf. ‘marital infidelity’ – Mt 5:32; 19:9]
21:28
and shouted out,
“Fellow men, yoů Israelites,
give us hands!
This is the man
who is teaching all men everywhere against the people,
even the Torah and this very Place [of worship] a;
moreover he even brought Gentile Greeks
into the [inner] Miqdash court!
yeah, he defiled this holy Placeb! [24:6]”
21:29
((The fact was,
they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian [a gentile]
in the City [Yerusalem] with him,
thus assuming that it must be Paulos
who had brought him into the [inner] Miqdash court.)) c
21:30
And the whole City was in an uproar [because of this],
people rushing in together.
They got hold of Paulos and dragged him off out of the Miqdash,
and at once the gates were shut.
21:31
While they were demanding to put him to death,
a report reached the tribuned of the Roman cohort, e
to the effect that all Yerusalem was in a tumult like a riot.
21:32
Acting immediately, the tribune took soldiers and centurions
and raced toward the scene.
And when the mob saw the tribune and the soldiers [rushing down on them],
they stopped beating Paulos.
21:33
Then the tribune came up and took hold of him
and ordered him to be bound with two chains,
and questioned who he was and what he had done.
21:34
And some among the crowd shouted out one thing, some another,
and since it was impossible for him to be certain of the facts
because of such commotion that was going on,
he gave the order that Paulos be brought to the encampment.
21:35
And when Paulos got on the steps, it turned out that
he had to be actually carried off by the soldiers
because of the violent crowd;
21:36
for | the crowd of the people kept following them, with shouts,
“Put him to death!”

a 21:28 the very Place ░░ /the Place [of worship] [= the Mishkan];]
b 21:28 this holy Place ░░ [= 6:13. Also Mt 24:15 ‘a holy place’; the Miqdash (> Temple) in general; not same as
‘the Holy places’, nor ‘the Holy of Holy places’ in Heb 8:2ff.]
c 21:29 <verse> ░░ [It was that he had accompanied Paulos on the way from Macedonia.] [20:4]
d 21:31ff tribune ░░ [Gk. chiliarchos Roman military tribune, the commander of a Roman Cohort Act 21:31-33, 37;

22:24, 26-29; 23:10, 15, 17, 19, 22; 24:22; Jn 18:12];. [Cf. pl. in 25:23 – ? any high ranking military officer (Mk 6:21)]
/commander – most; /commanding officer – NET; /> chief captain - KJV;
e 21:31ff cohort ░░ [Gk. speira (600 to 1000 men)]
21:37
There, when Paulos was about to be taken into the encampmenta,
he says to the tribune,
“Is it permissible for me to speak some words to you?”
And he replied,
“Well, well, so you know some Greek!
21:38
Then, you really can’t be that Egyptian,
can you?
[you know that guy, don’t you?]
the one some time ago started an insurrection,
and led the four thousand men of ‘Assassins’
off into the Judean desert-wilderness to hide there.
21:39
But Paulos said,
“No, I myself am a man, indeed a Yehudib,
native of Tarsus in CILICIA, a city by no means insignificant.
So I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”

a 21:37 encampment ░░ [Gk. parembolēn] - Aramaic Bible Plain English; /xx: barracks – most; /xxx: castle – KJV; />
fortress; /x: headquarters;
b 21:39 Yehudi ░░ /Yehudite; /x: Jew;
(Acts 22)
Act 22:1-21 Paulos’ Self-defense
21:40
Then, permission being given,
Paulos, standing on the top of the steps, motioned with his hand to the people,
and when a great hush fell,
he began addressing them in Hebrew language, [26:14]
saying
22:1
“Brothers! Also fathers [of this people]!
Please yoů hear my defense which I am making to yoů now. …”
22:2
((Now when they heard that he addressing them
in Hebrew language,
they became all the more quiet.))

Then he continues,
22:3
“I myself am a Yehudia indeed – just like yoů all,
 born in Tarsus of CILICIA,
 but brought up in this very City Yerusalem
 at the feet of Gamaliel having received learning
in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers,
being a loyal person to the Elohim, just-as yoů all are this day:
22:4
Yes, it is the ‘Way’b as this was called, [9:2; 19:9; 24:14; cf. 18:25-6]
that I persecuted to bring its followers to the death,
arresting and delivering into prisons
— both men and women,
22:5
as both the High Priest and all the eldership can testify of me
—They even gave me letters [to take]
to their fellow brethren of Yehudim
and I was on my way to Damascus
to arrest even those who were there
and bring the prisoners to Yerusalem to get punished.
22:6
And it came to pass that,
as I went on and coming near to Damascus,
about middayc,, suddenly there shone around me
a great light from the heaven.
22:7
And having fallen [with others] to the ground
I heardd a sound of voice saying to me, [9:4; 26:13]
<Shaul, Shaul, why are you persecuting me?>

a
22:3 Yehudi ░░ [one from the tribe of Yehudah]; /Yehudite; /x: Jew - most;
b
22:4 ‘The Way’ ░░ [= 9:2; 19:23] [i.e. ‘the Way of the Lord 18:25; (cf. the Way of God 18:26) = teaching
of Mashiah. [See *Religion in BW]
c
22:6 midday ░░ (also 26:13); /x: noon (=‘sixth hour-period’) – See *hour in BW.]
d
22:7 hear a sound of voice ░░ (9:7) (akouō + gen. phonēs)
 22:8
And I answered,
<Who are you, sir?>
And He said to me,
<Yeshua the Nazorean, the one whom you’re persecuting,
is me.>
22:9
But those who were with me indeed saw the light
and became fearful,
but they on their part didn’t heara to the very voice [that I heard] [cf. 9:7]
of the One who was speaking to me.
22:10
And I said,
<What might I do, sirb?>
And the Lord said to me,
<Get on your feet and proceed on your way to Damascus,
and there it will be told to you
about all that is appointed for you to do.>
22:11
And I did not see from the glory of that light,
being led by the hand by those who were with me,
I came into Damascus.
22:12
And one Hananyah, a man devoutly observing the Torah,
well-spoken of by all the Yehudim who dwelt there,
22:13
came to me and standing by me said to me,
<Brother Shaul, have your sight back.>
And I on my part in the very moment looked
and saw him before me.
22:14
And he said,
<The Elohim of our fathers has appointed you to know His will
setting your eyes on the Righteous One
and hearing His very voice,
22:15
because you are to be His witness before all people
testifying to what you have seen and heard.
22:16
Now, then, what is there to put off?
Rise to your feet, and get yourself immersed
— and have your sins washed off
by calling upon the Lord’s name.>
22:17
And a remarkable thing happened to me
after my return to Yerusalem.
When I was in the Miqdash court offering prayer
I came to fall into a trance
22:18
— and there saw Yeshua and heard him saying to me,
<Hurry and get out of Yerusalem,
do so quickly;

a
22:9 hear the voice ░░ (9:4) (akouō + accu. phonēn)
b
22:10 sir ░░ [same as in v. 8; here ‘Lord’ may be appropriate in the context. Here both kept same.]
 seeing that people who are there will refuse
to accept the testimony you bear on my behalf.>
22:19
Then, this was my own reply:
<Lord, these are the very men
who know that I am the one
who used imprison those putting their faith in you
and who had them flogged in every synagogue:
22:20
Morever,
when the very blood of your witness Stephen was being shed,
I myself also stood there,
giving my approval {of his execution},[8:1]
and had even my eyes on their robes
as they took off to get on stoning him to death.>
22:21
And He said to me,
<Be on your way! because I now am sending you out
to far-off nations.> . . .”
22:22
And, listening to his word this much,
the crowd thus raised their voice, shouting:
“Get rid of that guy off the face of the earth:
— he doesn’t to be alive!”
22:23
As they were screaming like this, throwing down their robes
and throwing dust up into the air,
22:24
the tribune ordered him be brought into the encampment,
saying that he should be interrogated by flogging him
to know the reason they are shouting at him this way.
22:25
And when they had strapped him down ready for the lashing,
Paulos said to the centurion who was standing by,
“As for a man who is a Roman citizen
and hasn’t even had a proper trial
— is it allowed for yoů to flog him?”
22:26
And when the centurion heard this,
he went to the tribune and reported it, saying
“{Watch} what are you about to do.
You see, actually this man is a Roman citizen.”
22:27
And the tribune came and asked Paulos,
“Tell me: you really are a Roman citizen?”
And he said,
“Yes.”
22:28
And the tribune answered,
“I for myself had to pay a large sum [of money]
for this citizenship!”
And Paulos said,
“But I even was born a Roman citizen!”
22:29
Then those who were about to interrogate him
at once stayed away from him
and the tribune became now afraid
when he found out that Paulos was now turned up a Roman
and because it was this Paulos he had actually put in chains.
22:30
But on the next day,
desiring to know for sure why Paulos was accused by the Yehudim,
the tribune let him unshackled {from the chain}
and ordered the High Priest and all the Council to come together
and brought Paulos down and had him stand before them. [56 CE]

(Acts 23)
23:1
And Paulos, staring up at the Council, said,
“Brothers,
as regards to myself, I have lived my life to this day
with a perfectly good consciencea before the Elohim.”
23:2
And the High Priest Hananyahb [47-59 CE]
ordered those who stood by him
to strike him on the mouth.
23:3
as Paulos said to him,
“the Elohim is going to strike you,
you whitewashed wall!
and you–you sit there judging me
according to the Torah
and then contrary to the Torah
you are ordering me to be struck!
23:4
And those who stood by said,
“What? He is the High Priest of the Elohim!
How dare do you insult him!”
23:5
And Paulos said,
“I had no idea, brothers,
that he was the High Priest:
[How was I to know?
If I did, I should have refrained;]
yes, it stands written, {E22:8}
<You will not speak evil of a ruler of your people.>”
23:6
But when Paulos knew that
the one group was Sadducees and the other Pharisees,
he cried out in the council,
a
23:2 good conscience ░░ [suneidēsis + agathos – 1Ti 1:5, 19] /x: clear conscience (cf. ‘clean conscience’ 1Ti 3:9);
b
23:2 Hananyah ░░ [also 24:1. the High Priest similar named but different from Hannan (Eng. Annas; Gk.
Hannas) - Act 4:6 = Lk 2:2 = Jn 18:13] [Gk. Hananias - same named different persons – (1) the ill-fated one
in Act 5:1ff (rendered as Ananias) and (2) one disciple in Act 9:10ff.]
 “Brethren! I, I am a Pharisee,
a son of a Pharisee!
It is over the matter of my confident hope
in resurrection of the dead
that I am being judged here!”
23:7
And when he had said this, there began a dispute
between the Pharisees and {the} Sadducees,
and the multitude was divided.
23:8
((That was because the Sadducees say
that there is no such thing as resurrection [of the dead];
neither an angel, nor a spirit; a
but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.))
23:9
And there broke out a great uproar
and some of the soferim of the Pharisees stood up
and began contending, saying
“We find no fault in this man;
and what if a spirit has spoken to him or an angel?
{Let us not fight against Elohim.}”
23:10
And when there was a great dissension,
the tribune began to fear
lest Paulos should be torn in pieces by them.
Thus he gave an order to the soldiers to go down
and snatch him out of their midst
and bring him into the encampment.
23:11
And the Lord appeared to stand by his side as night came and said,
“Have courage:
it is that as you have borne witness about me at Yerusalem,
so must you bear witness also at Rome.”
23:12
And when it became day,
{some of}
the Yehudim made a plot
and bound themselves under a curse,
saying with an oath that they would neither eat,
nor drink again until they had killed off Paulos.
23:13
And they were more than forty
that made this oath of conspiracy.
23:14
And they came to the High Priest and the Elders and said,
“We have bound ourselves with a curse not to take any food
until we have killed off Paulos.
23:15
Well then, yoů, for yoůr part, together with the Sanhedrin
notify the tribune
to bring him down to yoů,

a
23:8, 9 an angel ~ a spirit ░░ [‘angel’ - x 20 in Acts. This English word refers to ‘divine messenger’ – created
spirit being.] [In these 2 verses, both appositive.]
 on the pretext that yoů are about to make
a more thorough examination of his case.
And we, for our part, are to be ready
to get rid of him before he arrives.”
23:16
But Paulos’ sister's son over-heard of their plot of ambush
and he came and entered into the encampment
and had Paulos know on that matter.
23:17
And Paulos called one of the centurions to him and said,
“Bring this young man to the tribune;
it is that there is something
he has to let the tribune know.”
23:18
At that the centurion took the man
and brought him to the tribune,
and addressing him in these words:
“The prisoner Paulos called me to his side and asked me
to take this young man to you,
because there is something he has to tell you.”
23:19
And the tribune took the young man by the hand,
and drew him to his side, and asked him,
“What is it that you have to have me know?
23:20
And he said,
“The Judean people have devised a scheme
that they were put before you a request
to bring Paulos tomorrow before the Sanhedrin,
on the pretext that they mean to inquire
more accurately into his case.
23:21
So then, don’t yield to them:
the truth is that more than forty out of them
are lying in wait for him.
And these have bound themselves under a curse
that they would neither eat nor drink again
until they get rid of him.
And they are ready now, waiting only for the promise from you
to fall in with their scheme.”
23:22
So the tribune dismissed the young man after ordering him,
“Don’t blab to anyone
that you have made these things clear to me.”
23:23
And he summoned two of the centurions and said,
“Make ready two hundred infantrymen
from the third hour-period of the nighta to set out for Caesarea. [9 PM]

a
23:23 third hour-period of the night ░░ (in contrast to ‘hour-period on a sundial’); [≈ 8-9 p.m. if sunset
is 6 p.m.] [This is the only example of an ordinal number for Roman reckoning of hour-periods of the night
with a night period divided by 12, same as a day was. Jewish reckoning is to divide a night into four watches
and to divide a day into 12 hrs.]
 together with seventy horsemen
and two hundred spearmen,
23:24
Moreover, provide beasts of burden so that Paulos may ride
and be taken safely to Felix the governor.”
23:25
And he wrote a letter in these words:
23:26
“From Claudius Lysias,
To: His Excellency Governor Felix
Greeting!
23:27
This man you are going to see was seized by his own Yehudim
and they were about to get rid of him.
But, when I have found out that he was a Roman citizen
I went up with my troop and got him away out of harm’s way.
23:28
Moreover, since I desired to ascertain
on what ground they were accusing him,
I took him down before their Sanhedrin:
23:29
However, I found that there was an accusation
concerned with disputed points of their Torah,
but there was nothing to charge against him
for which he would deserve death, or even imprisonment.
23:30
Moreover, an information came to me
that there was a plot afoot against the man
{by the Yehudim};
that’s why I immediately proceeded
to send him to you,
at the sometime instructing his accusers
to present their case against him before you. {Sincerely.}”
23:31
Thus, taking the orders given to them, the soldiers took Paulos
and brought him that night as far as Antipatris. 40 miles NW fr. Yerusalem
23:32
On the next day they returned to their encampment [in Yerusalem]
leaving it to the cavalry to continue to go on with him:
23:33
And when the cavalry arrived Caesarea-by-the-Sea further 25 miles NWW
and delivered the letter to the Governor,
they also presented Paulos before him.
23:34
And the Governor, upon reading it,
asked Paulos what province he was from,
only to learn that he was from CILICIA.
23:35
He said,
“I will hear your case as soon as your accusers also have arrived.”
Then he ordered Paulos to be kept under guard there [at Caesarea Maritima]
in the Praetoriuma which was built before by Herod the Great.

a
24:35 Praetorium ~ by Herod ░░ [Lit. ‘Herod’s praetorium’]; /x: Herod’s palace; /x: Herod’s judgment
hall – KJV;
(Acts 24)
24:1
And after five days
Hananyah [←23:2] the High Priest came down [to Caesarea]
with some Elders and a certain orator, one Tertullus,
and they brought formal charges against Paulos to the Governor.
So, Paulos having been called,
Tertullus began to accuse him, saying
24:2
“A great peace having become ours to enjoy under your rule
the reforms brought to this nation through your forethought,
24:3
In every way and everywhere we may be,
we have come to acknowledge this,
your Excellency Felix, with all the thankfulness.
24:4
Now, nothing could be further from my intention
than to hold you unduly long.
Still, I am pleading with you
to hear us briefly by your kindness.
24:5
That fact is, we have found this man
to be such a plague, a real troublemaker,
to stir-up discord among all the Yehudima
throughout the inhabited-land.
acting as the ringleader of the Nazorean sect;
24:6
Beside, he tried to desecrate the Miqdash,
and it was in these circumstances that we put him under arrest
{and want to have him judged according to our Torah.}
24:7
— ((Then, Lysias the tribune came upon us
and with great force took him out-of our hands.)) —
24:8
When you order his accusers to come forward to you,}
as regards yourself, you will be in a position,
by simply questioning him yourself,
to ascertain from him the truth of all the charges
we ourselves are making against him.”

24:9
And the Yehudim supported this indictment,
claiming that the facts were as stated.
24:10
And now, in response to a signal to go ahead from Governor Felix,
Paulos answered,

“Knowing fully well as I do that

for many years you have been performing
the function of a judge on behalf of this nation,
I am readily bringing in my defense
concerning my own affairs:

a
24:5 Yehudim ░░ /> Judaic people; /x: Jews; /xx: Judeans; [See BW *Jews]
 24:11
As you are able to ascertain —
it is for me not more than twelve days
since I went up to Yerusalem to worship:
24:12
yet, no one found me in the Miqdash debating with others,
nor was I discovered in attempt to stir up a crowd,
be in the synagogues, or in the City.
24:13
Nor are they able to present to you
the charges they are right now making against me.
24:14
This, however, I will say openly to you, that
by following the new Way [of our Mashiah] [9:2; 19:9; cf. 18:25]
(those [bringing charges against me] refer to it
as a [heretical] sect [of our Yehudism])
in that way I do render sacred service
to the Elohim of our forefathers,
believing all the things laid down in the Torah
and written in the Nevi'im.a
24:15
I have a confident hope that rests in the Elohim
— the hope shared by these men here —
that there is to be a resurrection{of the dead},
both righteous and unrighteous ones.b
24:16
And it is in consideration of all this
that I myself also do strive ever
to keep a conscience clear before the Elohim and before men.
24:17
Now after an interval of some years
I returned to bring gifts of mercy to [the people of] my own nation
as well as to make my offerings:
24:18
and I was engaged in this task
of offering sacrifices in the Miqdash,
having purified ceremonially,
when they came upon me.
There was no crowd, neither there was any uproar;
only certain Yehudim from [the Province of] ASIA
were with me:
24:19
These are the men who ought to be present here before you
if they had anything to charge me with.
24:20
Since there are not here,
let these men themselves who are here
declare what wrong-doing they found me guilty of
when I was confronting the Council,
24:21
— except this one voice shouting out
as I stood in the midst of them:
<It is because of the view I take of the resurrection of the dead
that I myself am on trial before yoů today>.”◊

a
24:14 the Nevi'im ░░ /> the Prophet; [Heb. the (Books of) the Prophets]
b
24:15 righteous ~ unrighteous ░░ /x: just ~ unjust – KJV; /xx: good ~~ bad; /xx: good ~ evil; /
24:22
But Felix, having learned more accurately
concerning the ‘Way’ [of the Mashiah], [9:2; 19:9; 24:14; cf. 18:25]
adjourned the hearing with this remark:
“As soon as Lysias the tribune comes down here,
I shall decide upon these matters involving yoů all.”
24:23
And Felix commanded the centurion to have Paulos kept in custody
but to give him some freedom [from restriction]
and none of his friends should be prevented
from looking after his needs.
24:24
After a few days Felix with his [third] wife Drusilla, a Jewess,
sent for Paulos and listened to what he had to say
on the Paulos’ faith in the Mashiah {Yeshua}.
24:25
But when he came to deal with
the subjects of righteousness and self-control
as well as the God's Judgment to come,
Felix became uneasy and apprehensive. He replied,
“For the present you may go.
When a convenient time is found, I’ll send for you again.”
24:26
Entertaining a hope that Paulos would pay him some money
to secure release from the prison,
he often summoned Paulos to come and talk privately with him.

24:27
Meanwhile two years passed.
Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus,
Wishing to gain favor with the Yehudim,
Felix left Paulos behind as a prisoner [there in Caesarea].

(Acts 25)
25:1
Having arrived in his own province to take up his new post,
this Festus, three days later, went up from Caesarea to Yerusalem,
25:2
where the High Priest and the leaders of the Yehudim
laid case before him against Paulos.
Moreover, they made the request
25:3
(as a special favor for them)
that Paulos should be brought up to Yerusalem.
— they were surreptitiously plotting
to lay an ambush and to kill him along the way.

25:4
Festus then replied:
“As Paulos is being kept prisoner right now in Caesarea
and as I myself was shortly returning there,
25:5
I suggest that those influential among yoů accompany me
and if he has done anything wrong,
they may bring charges against him there.”
25:6
And after a stay of eight days or ten in Yerusalem – not more –
Festus went down back to Caesarea.
Next day he took his place on the judicial bench
and ordered Paulos to be brought.
25:7
And with Paulos in place,
the Yehudim leaders from Yerusalem took their stands around him,
and brought against him a variety of serious charges,
none of which they were able to substantiate.
25:8
Then Paulos said in his defense,
“Nothing against the Torah of our Yehudim, or the Miqdash,
nor against Emperor Caesar
have I committed any crime!
25:9
But Festus, wishing to gain a favor with the Yehudim,
replied to Paulos and said,
“Are you willing to go up to Yerusalem
and be tried there on these charges before me?”
25:10
But Paulos said,
“I should be standing before Caesar's judicial bench —
that’s where I ought to be tried.
I have done nothing wrong to the Yehudim,
as you also know well enough.
25:11
Thus, if, on the other hand, what I’m doing is wrong
and I have done anything deserving death penalty.
I do not ask to escape the sentence of death;
As in fact, however, there is no substance whatsoever
in any of these charges brought against me,
anyone should be able to hand me over to my adversaries.
— To Caesar I appeal!”

25:12
Upon this, after conferring with his advisers, Festus gave out this reply:
“To Caesar you have appealed;
to Caesar you shall go!”

25:13
Now after an interval of several days, [Herod] Agrippa II the King and Bernice
arrived at Caesarea [from Yerusalem]
and paid their respects to Festus. [58 CE]
25:14
And during their stay of several days,
Festus laid Paulos’ case before the King, saying
“There is a certain man here.
who has been left in prison by the former governor Felix.
25:15
This is about him.
 On an occasion when I went to Yerusalem,
the High Priest and the Elders of the Yehudima
presented their case about him
and asked for a guilty sentence against him.
25:16
I gave them this reply:
<It is not a custom for Romans
to hand over any man {to death penalty},
before the accused have had a chance
to see the accusers face to face
and had been given an opportunity
to defend himself against the charge.>
25:17
So in time when his opponents joined me here,
I acted without the least delay:
the very next morning I took my place on the judicial bench
and ordered the man to be brought to the court.
25:18
When the accusers took their stands,
they were not bringing up charges
of any misdemeanor which I expected;
25:19
but it was just that they argued on with Him
about their own peculiar religion
and about a certain Yeshua, who died,
but whom Paulos declared to be alive.
25:20
Since I myself was completely at a loss
as to how to investigate these matters,
I asked if he was willing to go to Yerusalem
and stand trial on these charges.
25:21
But when Paulos appealed to be remanded
for the decision of His Imperial Majesty,
I gave orders to have him kept under remand
until I should send him to Emperor Caesar.”

25:22
And Agrippa said to Festus,
“I’d like to hear the man myself as well.”

“Tomorrow,” he says, “you shall hear him.”

25:23
So the next day,
Agrippa and Bernice made their appearance with great pomp,
and entered into the audience chamber
attended by the military tribunesb as well as the city notables.
And at Festus’s order Paulos was brought.
25:24
And Festus says,
“King Agrippa,

a
25:15 Yehudim ░░ /Judeans; /x: Jews; [See BW *Jews]
b 25:23 tribunes ░░ [See fn. 21:31. Pl. in the sense of any high ranking military commanders.]
 and all of yoů who are here with us,
you see this man!
the whole Yehudim people have petitioned me,
both in Yerusalem and here,
clamoring that he no longer had the right to live.
25:25
For my part, I realized
that he had done nothing deserving death penalty,
but when he himself appealed to His Augustus Majesty,
I decided to send him.
25:26
On the other hand, I have nothing definite about him
to write to my Lord Caesar Emperor.
That’s why I have brought him out here before yoů all
and especially before you, King Agrippa,
that, after this examination finishes,
I may have something to write.
25:27
Yoů see, it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner
without specifying the charges against him.”

(Acts 26)
26:1
And Agrippa said to Paulos,
“Now you may speak on behalf of yourself.”
Then stretching out his hand Paulos motioned for silence
and began his defense:

26:2
“Concerning all the things
of which I am accused by our own Yehudim of the ruling authority,
O King Agrippa! I consider myself fortunate
that I am about to make my defense before yoů today:
26:3
especially so, {being aware that} you are familiar with
all the customs and controversial matters of Yehudim.
So I beg {you} to be patient and hear me out.
26:4
My way of life from my youth,
a life lived from the beginning
among my own people and in Yerusalem—
this all the Yehudim leaders know.
26:5
they have known me for a long time
— if they would only to admit to this fact—
that, it is in conformity with what is laid down
by the strict party of our religious traditiona.
In other words,
I lived as a Pharisee as I should.
26:6
And now it is on account of this hope

a
26:5 religious tradition ░░ (thrēskeia ); /religion – most (- Paulos is not using a technical term ‘religion’);
 in the promise that made by the Elohim to our fathers
that I am standing here on trial
26:7
— the very promise that our twelve tribes hope to see fulfilled
as they earnestly worship Elohim night and day.
And it is, O king {Agrippa}, on account of this very hope
that I am being charged — by our own Yehudim.
26:8
Why do yoů all who are here think it is something incredible
that the Elohim does raise the dead to Life?
26:9
“Indeed, as for myself, there was a time
when I became convinced I my own mind that
it’s my duty to do lots of work in opposition
to the very name of Yeshua the Nazorean.
26:10
And this was what I did in Yerusalem:
many of the those dedicated to the Elohim
did I myself lock up in prisons
— this being done on the authority received of the High Priest —
And, when they were being sentenced to death,
I cast my vote against them.
26:11
And, punishing them often in all the synagogues,
I tried to force them to blaspheme [the name of Yeshua].
And in an excess of fanaticism with hate against them
I even went to persecute them even in the cities beyond Judea.”

26:12
“That’s how I came to be heading to Damascus
authorized and commissioned by the High Priest.
26:13
In the middle of daya, O King,
as I was on my way
I saw a light from the heaven, much brighter than sun,
shining around me and my travelling companions.
26:14
And we all fell to the ground,
and then I heard a voice saying to me [9:4; 22:7]
in Hebrew language, [21:40]
<Shaul, Shaul,
why are you persecuting me?
You only hurt yourself
by kicking against ox-goads like this.> b
26:15
And I said, <Who are you, sirc?>
And the Lord said,

a
26:13 middle of day ░░ (= 22:6 ‘midday’); /x: noon (which is ‘sixth hour-period’) – See ‘hour’ under
Basic Words in the Scripture.]
b
26:14 kicking against ox-goads ░░ [9:5 v.l.] [an idiom for stubborn resistance.]
c
26:15 sir ░░ [Gk. kurie (vocative). Yeshua was then unknown to Paulos]; /x: Lord – most;
 <I am Yeshua,a the One you’re persecuting.
26:16
Enough of this: rise up and stand on your feet:
Indeed, if I have come to appear to you,
that was for this purpose of appointing you
as my servant and a witness,
that you shall testify to what you have seen [of me]
as well as what I’ll yet reveal to you.
26:17
I’ll rescue you from Yehudim your own people,
and from the Gentiles.
To the Gentiles I’m sending you,
26:18
to open their eyes,
so that they may turn away from darkness
to turn to light
and away from the control of the satan
turn to the power of the Elohim, b
so that, they may be granted forgiveness of sins
and, by putting [their] trust in me, may become part of those
who have been consecrated to Elohim.>
26:19
“So then, O King Agrippa,
how could I go against to the heavenly vision?
26:20
On the contrary, to those right there in Damascus first,
and then those in Yerusalem to reach throughout the whole JUDEA,
yes, even to the Gentiles,
I’ve brought the word that they should turn their hearts to God’s way
and turn to the very Elohim, [20:21; cf. 3:19; 17:30]
and do what they should do in keeping with repentance.
26:21
This is why the Yehudim took had me arrested in the Miqdash
and atteptedc to put me to death.
26:22
By the grace of the Elohim, however, I have stood to this day
to bear my witness to one and all,
asserting nothing in any way which goes
beyond what the Nevi'imd and Moses had foretold:
26:23
That the Mashiah – the very One you all are eagerly looking forward to –
would have to suffer [to death]
and would be [the] firste out of the resurrection of the dead,
to proclaim ☼light both to our own Yehudim people
– and to the Gentiles☼.”

a
26:15 Yeshua ░░ [a transliterate of Hebrew, as He used to introduce Himself here]; /x: Jesus (- it is
illogical here to have Him say His name was ‘Jesus’, when speeches here were in Hebrew ← v. 14!)
b
26:18 control ~ power ░░ /dominion - NASB; /> power – most; /> control –ISV; [not ‘authority]
c
26:21 attepted ░░ (epeirōnto)
d
26:22, 27 the Nevi'im ░░ /> the Prophet; [Heb. the (Books of) the Prophets]
e
26:23 first ░░ [? firstfruits]
26:24
Now Paulos had reached this point in his defense,
when Festus cried out loudly
[+ cutting him off as soon as Paulos mentioned the resurrection of the dead],
“You are insane, Paulos!
Your great learning is driving you insane!”

26:25
But Paulos says,
“I am not going insane, your most Excellency Festus;
but speaking out words of sober truth.
26:26
In reality, the king to whom I am speaking boldly
also well knows about these things;
after all I can’t believe that
any of these things has escaped his notice;
for | this thing has not been done in a corner
[and tucked away outside of the view].

26:27
“Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Nevi'im?
— I know you do.”

26:28
And Agrippa said to Paulos,
“With such a little effort you’re persuading me to turn
to turn into one of your ‘Christians’a fellas!?”
26:29
And Paulos said,
“I bring my wish to the Elohim that,
— whether it takes a little or much persuasion —
not only you but also all those who hear me today
may become such as I also am
— except, of course, for … these chains which bind me.”
26:30
And the king rose
and so did the Governor
and °Bernice [°=king’s incestuous sister]
and those seated with them:
26:31
and as they withdrew they spoke to one another, saying
“Nothing worthy of death or of chain is this man doing.”
26:32
And Agrippa said to Festus,
“This man could have been released, if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

a
26:28 ‘Christians’ ░░ [= a gentile Mashiah believer. Gk. Christianoi (pl.) in Act 11:26. Also 1Pe 4:16;
EE.] /x: Messianic - JNT; /
27:1ff – Last Journey [Caesarea to Rome]

Map
Paulos’ Voyage to Rome
www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/CN092MAPS1.htm
http://net.bible.org/map.php?map=jp4
www.matthewmcgee.org/paultime.html
(Acts 27)
(We-section IV: 27:1 - 28:16) Voyage from Caesarea
27:1
Once the decision was made
that we were to go to ITALY by the sea,
Paulos, with a few other prisoners, was handed over
to a centurion named Julius,
who belonged to the [prestigious] Augustus Cohort.

27:2
And having boarded a ship from Adramyttium,
which was to be bound for places
along the coast of [the province of] ASIA,
we were put out to sea,
there being with us Aristarchus, a fellow prisoner,
who was a Macedonian from Thessalonica.


27:3
And the next day we were put in at Sidon
and the Centurion Julius treated Paulos kindly
enough to permit him to go and see his friends
and be cared for.

27:4
And from there we put out again to sea sailing
under the shelter of the Island CYPRUS avoiding contrary winds.

27:5
And then crossing the sea off the coast of CILICIA and PAMPHYLIA,
 we reached to Myra, a port in LYCIA.


27:6
There, the centurion found a [very big premier] [grain cargo] ship
hailing from Alexandria, which was bound for ITALY,
and he put us aboard her.
27:7
For a good many days we made but little headway
and we had considerable difficulty to reach Cnidus
[a port city on a peninsula, about 130 miles from Myra].
As the wind not letting us head on
any farther in that direction,
we dipped down south and sailed under the shelter of the Island CRETE,
off Cape Salmone on the Eastern coast of the Island.
27:8
We then struggled [about 60 miles] along its [Southern] coast

 until we reached a port called Fair Havens [Gk. KAOLI LIMENES] ;

which was a short distance [5 miles to East]
beyond the town of Lasea [on the coast].
27:9
And since much of time had been lost by now
and the weather was getting dangerous for seafaring
because the season was now late in the fall well after time
of the ☼Fastinga on the Day of Atonement [=Yom Kippur], [☼Lev 16:29]
Paulos gave them this warning:
27:10
saying to them,
“My fellow men! I can see that
the voyage is likely to end up in a disaster
with much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship,
but also of our lives.”
27:11
But the centurion was more persuaded
by the shipmasterb and the ship-owner,
rather than by anything Paulos said.
27:12
And because the harbor was to them unsuitable for wintering,
the majority decided to sail on,
hoping that perhaps they could make it to Phoenix for wintering there,
a harbor of CRETE (Is.), looking northwest and southwest.
27:13
And when a light south wind sprang up,
they thought they had as good as realized what they intended,
 and lifted the anchor up
and began coasting close by along the coast of CRETE (Is.).
27:14
But not long after,
the [feared] tempestuous wind storm, feared Euraquilo{/mss},
rushed down upon it!
27:15
and as the ship was violently caught by it
and could not keep its head against,
we had to give in,
and let it driven along by the wind.
27:16
And running under the lee of a small island called CLAUDA,
we were with difficulty
able to get under the control the ship’s life-boat on tow:
27:17
and after the crew had hoisted it up aboard,
they used cables to under-gird the ship.
Fearing they would be-thrown away further down
onto the Gulp of Syrtis Major [of North Africa to the south],
they lowered the drift-anchor
and so let it driven along.
27:18
But being violently tossed by the storm next day,
they began to jettison the cargo;
27:19
and the third day they started throwing
[some of] the ship’s gear overboard [cf. v. 40]
with their very own hands.

a
27:9 Fasting ░░ />> Fast – most (-unclear word by itself);
b
27:11 shipmaster ░░ /helmsman - NKJV; /> captain - most; /x: master – KJV; /;
27:20
And as neither sun nor stars appeared for many days
and not a small! storm raging upon us,
any lingering hope for us to be saved was all evaporated.
27:21
And since they could not bother to eat for so long,
Paulos stood up in the midst of them and said,

“O gentlemen, yoů ought to have obeyed me

and not have dared to set sail from CRETE (Is.);
then yoů would have spared yourselves
such a disaster like this to incur so heavy a loss.
27:22
And now, my advice to yoů is
to keep up your courage;
indeed, here none of yoů will have their soul lost,
but only the ship will be lost.
27:23
In fact, last night there stood by me
someone from the Elohim to whom I belong and whom I serve
— an angel of messenger
27:24
saying <Do not fear, Paulos;
it is necessary for you to stand before Caesar
and behold, the Elohim has graciously granted
[safety of] everyone sailing with you.>
27:25
So keep up your courage, gentlemen:
as I believe the Elohim that it will happen just as he has told me.
27:26
Now, we will have to come ashore-on some island.”

27:27
But when it became the fourteenth night,
we were still driven in the Adriatic Seaa;
Around the middle of that night
the sailors suspected it was approaching some land.
27:28
They took soundings, they found it was twenty fathoms deep, [=120 ft]
and after a short interval, they took soundings again
and it was fifteen fathoms. [=90 ft]
27:29
And fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocky place,
they dropped four anchors from the stern
and wished for day to break.
27:30
But when the sailors were trying to abandon the ship
and had lowered the life-boat into the sea
on the pretext of dropping anchors from the prow,
27:31
Paulos said to the centurion and to the soldiers,
“Unless these sailors remain in the ship,
yoů yourselves cannot safely make it!”
27:32
Upon hearing this,
the soldiers cut the ropes off the life-boat and let it drift away.

a
27:33 Adriatic Sea ░░ [ between the Islands Crete and Malta]
27:33
And as the day was about to come onea
Paulos encouraged them all to eat,
saying

“Today is the fourteenth day since yoů have waited out

without bothering to touch food, having taken nothing in.
27:34
So now, I encourage yoů to take some nourishment:
yoů need it to stay alive;
yoů see, not a hair will be lost from yoůr heads.”

27:35
And when he had said this, he took bread up,
he gave thanks to the Elohim in the presence of all,
and he broke it and started to eat.
27:36
They all cheered themselves up and ate some food too.
27:37
((In all there were {two hundred} seventy six souls of us on board.))
27:38
And after they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship
by throwing the cargo of grain out into the sea.
27:39
And when day broke,
though they could not recognize which land [it was],
they could see a certain bayb with a beach.
So they decided to run,
if it were possible [at all], the ship on to the shore.
27:40
Thus [finally] they cut the anchors free,
abandoning them in the water,
and at the same time
unfastened the lashings of rudders [to allow steering],
and hoisting up the foresail to the blowing wind,
they set out to head the ship [straight] for the beach.
27:41
After they fell, however, into a place of two [strong] sea-currents,
 the ship got run aground [on to the rocky reef]
— [on the one end] the prow got stuck and remained immobile,
while [on the other end] the stern began
to break up by the violence of the waves.
27:42
And the soldiers was planning to kill off the prisoners
to prevent any of them from swimming away to escape.
27:43
But the centurion, bent on securing
the safety of Paulos [under his responsibility],
blocked their plan, and ordered those who were able to swim
to jump overboard first and get to the land;
27:44
And the rest were to follow, some indeed on planks
and others on some broken pieces from the ship.
And so it came to pass this way
all were brought safely to the land.

a27:33 the day ~ come on ░░ [i.e. a new day to break/dawn]

b27:39 a certain bay ░░ [St. Thomas Bay, at the south-eastern Malta, according to Bob Cornuke, The Lost Shipwreck of St
Paul (2003). Traditionally, St. Paul’s Bay in the north-eastern Malta.]
(Acts 28)
28:1
Once we had made it ashore to safety,
we found out that the island was MALTA as it was called.
28:2
And the native islanders showed us extraordinary kindness,
kindling a fire to warm us in welcoming all of us
since it started to rain and was cold.
28:3
But Paulos gathered a bundle of dry sticks of brushwood
and as he was putting it on the fire,
a viper came out, driven off by the heat,
and latched onto his hand.
28:4
Then, seeing the venomous wild-creature
hanging from his hand,
the islanders said to one another,
“This man must be a murderer.
Though he made it safely out of the sea,
fate of justice would not let him live.”
28:5
However, he just shook off the venomous creature into the fire
and suffered no harm.
28:6
But they were expecting for him
to swell up or to suddenly drop dead.
But, after waiting for a long time
without seeing anything unusual happen to him,
they changed themselves in their mind
and were now saying that he must be a god.

28:7
Now in the area around that place were fields
belonging to the governor of the island; his name was Publius.
He welcomed us into his house in a friendly manner to lodge there three days.
28:8
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius became sick in bed
with bouts of fever and dysentery:
Paulos came to see him.
After praying Paulos laid hands on him and divinely healed him.
28:9
And when this happened,
other sick people in the island also kept coming and were healed.
28:10
They also honored us with many honors,
and when we were setting sail,
they brought the things for our need and placed aboard.

28:11
Three months having gone by, we sailed in a ship
which had wintered in the island,
an Alexandrian ship
with the ‘Heavenly Twins’ [=Sons of Zeus] on its figurehead.

28:12
And being brought into Syracuse [on the Is. Sicily],
we stayed there for two days.

28:13
From there we went around
and arrived at Rhegium [on the southern tip of Italy].
and after one day a south wind sprang up
 and on the second day we came to Puteoli;
28:14
There we found fellow brethren
and were invited to stay with them for a week
and thus we headed for Rome .
28:15
And the fellow brethren there, when they heard that we were coming,
traveled down to bid us welcome
as far as the ‘Forum-of-Appius’
and the ‘Three-Inns:
When Paulos saw them, he thanked the Elohim and took courage.

28:16
And when we entered Rome,
the centurion delivered the prisoners to the tribune,
but Paulos was allowed to live by himself
with the soldier to guard him.

{Paulos’ Last Days in Rome}

28:17
And it came to pass, that after three days
he called together those who were the local leaders of the Yehudim.
When they assembled, he said to them,
“I for my part, fellow mbrethren!
although I had done nothing against to our own people
or against the customs of our forefathers,
I was handed over to the hands of the Romans
as prisoner from Yerusalem.
28:18
After questioning me, the Romans were willing to release me,
because there was no ground for death penalty in my case.
28:19
But when our Yehudim spoke against it,
I was compelled to appeal to Caesar;
not that I had anything of which to accuse my own nation.
28:20
For this reason
I have asked yoů to see and to speak with me:
indeed, it is for the sake of the hope of Israel
that I have this chain hanging on me.”

28:21
And they said to him,
“We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you,
nor has any of the brethren come here
 and report or speak any evil concerning yoů.
28:22
But we consider it worthy to hear from you what do you think:
for | indeed concerning this sect, it is known to us
that everywhere it is spoken-against.”
28:23
And when they had appointed him a day,
they came to him into his lodging in great number;
to whom he expounded the matter,
testifying the Kingdom reign of the Elohim and persuading them concerning Yeshua,
both from the Torah of Moses and from the Nevi'ima
from morning until evening.
28:24
And some indeed got persuaded by what they were told
but others would not believe.
28:25
And when they disagreed among themselves,
they dismissed themselves after Paulos had spoken one statement:

“The Spirit of Holiness has well spoken

through Isaiah the prophet to yoůr fathers,
28:26
as the prophet {/mss} says:
<You go to this people and say:
“By hearing yoů will hear
but will never understand,
and by seeing yoů will see
but will never perceive!” {Isa 6:9}
28:27
Indeed, the heart of these people has become callous
and their ears they are hard of hearing
and their eyes they have shut;
lest they should perceive with their eyes;
and hear with their ears;
and understand with their heart;
and turn around and I shall heal them.…> {Isa 6:10 LXX}
28:28
Be it known to yoů, therefore, that
{this,} the gift of ☼deliverance from the Elohim {☼Psa 67:2}[Lk 2:30]
has been sent ☼to the Gentiles; {☼Psa 98:3}
they, yes, they will certainly hear it [to their hearts]!”

28:29
{And when he had said these words,
the Yehudim departed, having much debate among themselves.}
28:30
And Paulos stayed quite two years there [in Rome]
in a place he got the use of for himself
and would receive in all who came to see him,
28:31
proclaiming the Kingdom reign of the Elohim
and teaching the things concerning the Lord Yeshua the Mashiah
— freely, boldly and openly in public, being unhindered by anyone.
a
28:23 the Nevi'im ░░ /> the Prophet; [Heb. the (Books of) the Prophets]
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A Timeline

An Outline of the Acts

Acts of the Apostles

Part 1. Chs. 1 – 12
Witnessing of the Mashian Community
of Yerusalem

I. Chs. 1-7 Witnessing of Mashian Community in preparation

1:1 – 26 A. Witnessing In preparation
2:1 – 7:60 B. Yerusalem Community

II. Chs. 8-12 Witnessing of Mashian Community from Yerusalem

8:1 – 40 A. Persecution leads Philips to preach in Samaria
9:1 – 9:30 B. Persecution leads to conversion & call of Paulos
9:30 – 12:25 C. To Judea and Samaria

Part 2. Chs. 13-28

Witnessing of the Mashian Community
 through Paulos

III. 13:1 – 21:26 Witnessing through Paulos’ mission

13:1 – 14:28 A. Paulos’ 1st journey on mission
15:1-35 B. Yerusalem Council
15:36 – 18:22 C. Paulos’ 2nd journey on mission
18:23 – 21:26 D. Paulos’ 3rd journey on mission

IV. 27:27 – 28:31 Witnessing through Paulos’ imprisonment

21:27 – 26:32 A. Paulos in Yerusalem: Arrest and Trial
27:1 – 28:16 B. Paulos’ 4th journey in chain
28:17-31 C. Paulos’ last days in Rome
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Outline: Acts of the holy Spirit thru the Apostles

I. The witnessing of His church in preparation (Ch. 1:1-2:13)

A. The final command of Christ to witness (1:1-11)
B. The spiritual unity & organization to witness (1:12-26)
C. The holy Spirit given for power to witness (2:1-13)

II. The witnessing of His church in Yerusalem (Ch. 2:14-7:60)

A. Preaching & healing by Kefa brings thousands to salvation and growth (2:14-3:26)
B. Persecution brings deepened spiritual boldness, love & unity (4:1-5:42)
(5:1-11 Contrast of lies & selfishness on Ananias & Sapphira)
C. Prayer brings the ordaining of seven local ministers (6:1-6)
D. Persecution brings the message & martyrdom of Stephen (6:7-7:60)

III. The witnessing of His church in Judea and Samaria (Ch. 8-13)
A. Persecution leads Phillip to preach in Samaria (Ch. 8)
B. Persecution leads to the conversion & call of Paulos (Ch. 9)
C. Vision leads Kefa to perform miracles and present Christ to Cornelius and Gentiles (9:32-11:18)
D. Persecution brings further expansion of the Gospel (11:19-30)
E. Persecution brings death & imprisonment to the disciples (12:1-25)
(Yaakob, bar Zebedee, beheaded, Kefa delivered & Herod smote by God)

IV. The witnessing of His church unto the uttermost part of the earth (Ch. 13-28)
A. Paulos’ 1st missionary journey with BarNabba & Yohanan Markos thru CYPRUS, PAMPHYLIA & PISIDIA (Ch. 13-
14)
B. The Yerusalem council to discuss Judaizers & the Gentile converts (15:1-35)
C. Paulos’ 2nd missionary journey with Silas & Timotheos thru Asia Minor and Greece (15:36-18:22)
D. Paulos’ 3rd missionary journey to re-visit Asia Minor & Greece (18:23-21:26)

V. The witnessing of His church through Paulos’ imprisonment (Ch. 21:27-28:31)

We-sections in Acts

We-section I: 16:10-17 Into MACEDONIA (in Europe)

We-section II: 20:5-16
We-section III: 21:1-18
We-section IV: 27:1 - 28:16 Voyage from Caesarea

Yohanan, also called Markos

See BW for ‘Yohanan the one also called Markos’ (‘John Mark’) in Acts 12:12, 25; 13:5b, 13b;
15:36-40; Col 4:10
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Acts
Holy Spirit Working in Church

01. Heavenly ascension of Christ

02. Outpouring of holy spirit 18. Interview with Aquila, Priscilla

03. Lame man is healed
04. Yield from public preaching
05. Sapphira and Ananias judged
06. Providing deacons ends injustice
07. Intensive defense by Stephen
19. New believers in Ephesus
20. Touching farewell from Ephesians
21. Holy Spirit warns Paulos
22. Effect of Paulos’ Testimony

08. Rising persecution scatters church 23. Council of the Sanhedrin

09. Introducing Shaul to gospel 24. Hearing held by Felix

10. Taking gospel to Cornelius 25. Urgent appeal to Caesar

26. Reasoning with King Agrippa

11. Worship with Gentiles defended 27. Caesarea to MALTA Island
12. Outbreak from the prison 28. Heralding Gospel in chains
13. Relaying gospel to Antioch

14. Kindness mixed with confusion

15. Investigation by Yerusalem Council

16. Need for Timotheos's circumcision

17. Gospel presentation in Athens Special thanks to Barry Huddleston,

the author of ‘The Acrostic Bible’ (1978).
Appendix
Festivals mentioned in Acts:
1. Passover (the Festival of Matzah) – Act 12:5 (‘Easter’ in KJV is of archaic
meaning)
2. Shavuot (‘Pentecost’) – Act 2:1; 20:16
3. The Fast (of Yom Kippur) – Act 27:9

OT quotations & allusions in Acts

Parallel Passages in New Testament from Old Testament:
(Direct/indirect quotations + * Allusions)
<from http://blueletterbible.org/study/misc/quotes02.html >

Acts Source (*allusion) Reference Source (*allusion)

Act 1:20 Psa 69:25 Act 7:12 Gen 42:2*
Act 1:20 Psa 109:8 Act 7:13 Gen 45:1, 9*
Act 2:17-21 Joe 2:28-32 Act 7:14, 15 Gen 45:1-28*
Act 2:25-28 Psa 16:8-10 Act 7:16 Jos 24:32*
Act 2:30 2Sa 7:12* Act 7:17 Exo 1:7&
Act 2:30 Psa 89:4* Act 7:18 Exo 1:8*
Act 2:31 Psa 16:10 Act 7:19 Exo 1:10, 22*
Act 2:34 Psa 110:1 Act 7:20 Exo 2:2*
Act 3:22, 23 Deu 18:15, 18, 19 Act 7:21 Exo 2:3-10*
Act 3:25 Gen 22:18 Act 7:24 Exo 2:11*
Act 3:25 Gen 12:3* Act 7:26 Exo 2:13, 14
Act 4:11 Psa 118:22, 23 Act 7:29 Exo 18:3*
Act 4:11 Isa 28:16 Act 7:30 Exo 3:2*
Act 4:25, 26 Psa 2:1, 2 Act 7:32 Exo 3:6
Act 7:2 Gen 15:7* Act 7:33, 34 Exo 3:5, 7, 8, 10
Act 7:2 Neh 9:7* Act 7:35 Exo 2:14
Act 7:3 Gen 12:1 Act 7:35 Exo 3:15-18*
Act 7:4 Gen 11:31* Act 7:36 Exo 7:1-12:51*
Act 7:4 Gen 12:4, 5* Act 7:36 Exo 14:21*
Act 7:5 Gen 12:7* Act 7:36 Exo 12:41*
Act 7:5 Gen 13:15* Act 7:36 Exo 15:23*
Act 7:6, 7 Gen 15:13, 14 Act 7:36 Exo 16:1-36*
Act 7:8 Gen 17:10* Act 7:37 Deu 18:15
Act 7:8 Gen 21:3, 4* Act 7:38 Exo 19:3*
Act 7:8 Gen 25:26* Act 7:38 Exo 20:1-24:18*
Act 7:8 Gen 42:13* Act 7:40 Exo 32:1
Act 7:9 Gen 37:4, 11, 28* Act 7:41 Exo 32:19*
Act 7:9 Gen 39:1, 2, 21* Act 7:42, 43 Amo 5:25, 26*
Act 7:10 Gen 41:37, 40* Act 7:44 Exo 25:40*
Act 7:11 Gen 41:54* Act 7:44 Exo 26:30*
 Acts Source (*allusion) Acts Source (*allusion)
Act 7:12 Gen 42:2* Act 7:46 Psa 132:5*
Act 7:13 Gen 45:1, 9* Act 7:47 1Ki 8:1-66*
Act 7:14, 15 Gen 45:1-28* Act 7:49, 50 Isa 66:1, 2
Act 7:16 Jos 24:32* Act 8:32, 33 Isa 53:7, 8
Act 7:17 Exo 1:7& Act 10:34 Deu 10:17*
Act 7:18 Exo 1:8* Act 10:34 Job 34:19*
Act 7:19 Exo 1:10, 22* Act 13:17 Isa 1:2*
Act 7:20 Exo 2:2* Act 13:17 Exo 12:37*
Act 7:21 Exo 2:3-10* Act 13:18 Deu 1:31*
Act 7:24 Exo 2:11* Act 13:18 Num 14:33*
Act 7:26 Exo 2:13, 14 Act 13:18 Psa 95:10*
Act 7:29 Exo 18:3* Act 13:19 Deu 7:1*
Act 7:30 Exo 3:2* Act 13:19 Jos 14:2*
Act 7:32 Exo 3:6 Act 13:20 Jude 2:16*
Act 7:33, 34 Exo 3:5, 7, 8, 10 Act 13:20 1Sa 3:20*
Act 7:35 Exo 2:14 Act 13:21 1Sa 8:5*
Act 7:35 Exo 3:15-18* Act 13:21 1Sa 10:21*
Act 7:36 Exo 7:1-12:51* Act 13:22 1Sa 13:14
Act 7:36 Exo 14:21* Act 13:22 Psa 89:20
Act 7:36 Exo 12:41* Act 13:22 1Ch 10:14*
Act 7:36 Exo 15:23* Act 13:33 Psa 2:7
Act 7:36 Exo 16:1-36* Act 13:34 Psa 55:3
Act 7:37 Deu 18:15 Act 13:35 Psa 16:10
Act 7:38 Exo 19:3* Act 13:36 1Ki 2:10*
Act 7:38 Exo 20:1-24:18* Act 13:41 Hab 1:5
Act 7:40 Exo 32:1 Act 13:47 Isa 49:6
Act 7:41 Exo 32:19* Act 13:47 Isa 11:10*
Act 7:42, 43 Amo 5:25, 26* Act 15:16, 17 Amo 9:11, 12*
Act 7:44 Exo 25:40* Act 17:31 Psa 9:9*
Act 7:44 Exo 26:30* Act 17:31 Psa 96:13*
Act 7:45 Jos 3:14* Act 17:31 Psa 98:9*
Act 7:45 Jos 18:1* Act 23:5 Exo 22:28
Act 7:46 2Sa 7:2* Act 28:26, 27 Isa 6:9, 10

(Act 20:28b ‘blood of his own’)

To be found in the Study-ready Edition of Acts as an appendix.