Acts 25:20-22

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Acts 25:20 tn Or “Because I was undecided.” Grk “Being at a loss.” The participle ἀπορούμενος (aporoumenos) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
2. Acts 25:20 tn L&N 27.34 states, “ἀπορούμενος δὲ ἐγὼ τὴν περὶ τούτων ζήτησιν ‘I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters’ Ac 25:20. The clause ‘about how I could get information on these matters’ may also be rendered as ‘about how I should try to find out about these matters’ or ‘about how I could learn about these matters.’”
3. Acts 25:20 tn Or “stand trial.”
4. Acts 25:20 tn Grk “on these things.”
5. Acts 25:21 tn A designation of the Roman emperor (in this case, Nero). BDAG 917 s.v. σεβαστός states, “ὁ Σεβαστός His Majesty the Emperor Ac 25:21, 25 (of Nero).” It was a translation into Greek of the Latin “Augustus.”
6. Acts 25:21 tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).
7. Acts 25:22 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
8. Acts 25:22 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
9. Acts 25:22 tn Grk “said.”