Acts 5:12-16

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 5:12 tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.
2. Acts 5:12 tn Grk “And by.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
3. Acts 5:12 tn Or “With one mind.”
4. Acts 5:12 tn Or “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”sn Solomon’s Portico was a covered walkway formed by rows of columns supporting a roof and open on the inner side facing the center of the temple complex. Located beside the Court of the Gentiles, it was a very public area.
5. Acts 5:13 tn Or “to associate with them.” The group was beginning to have a controversial separate identity. People were cautious about joining them. The next verse suggests that the phrase “none of the rest” in this verse is rhetorical hyperbole.
6. Acts 5:13 tn Or “the people thought very highly of them.”
7. Acts 5:14 tn Or “More and more believers were added to the Lord.”
8. Acts 5:15 tn This is a continuation of the preceding sentence in Greek, but because this would produce an awkward sentence in English, a new sentence was begun here in the translation.
9. Acts 5:16 sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.
10. Acts 5:16 tn Literally a relative pronoun, “who.” In English, however, a relative clause (“bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits, who were all being healed”) could be understood to refer only to the second group (meaning only those troubled by unclean spirits were being healed) or even that the unclean spirits were being healed. To avoid this ambiguity the pronoun “they” was used to begin a new English sentence.
11. Acts 5:16 sn They were all being healed. Note how the healings that the apostles provided were comprehensive in their consistency.