Kisah Para Rasul 5:5

5:5 When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped ¹  all who heard about it.

Kisah Para Rasul 5:26

5:26 Then the commander ²  of the temple guard ³  went with the officers ⁴  and brought the apostles ⁵  without the use of force ⁶  (for they were afraid of being stoned by the people). ⁷ 

Kisah Para Rasul 9:26

Saul Returns to Jerusalem

9:26 When he arrived in Jerusalem, ⁸  he attempted to associate ⁹  with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe ¹⁰  that he was a disciple.

Kisah Para Rasul 27:17

27:17 After the crew ¹¹  had hoisted it aboard, ¹²  they used supports ¹³  to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground ¹⁴  on the Syrtis, ¹⁵  they lowered the sea anchor, ¹⁶  thus letting themselves be driven along.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Or “fear came on,” “fear seized”; Grk “fear happened to.”

[5:26]  ² tn Or “captain.”

[5:26]  ³ tn Grk “the official [of the temple],” a title for the commander of the Jewish soldiers guarding the temple (thus the translation, “the commander of the temple guard”). See L&N 37.91.

[5:26]  ⁴ tn The Greek term ὑπηρέτης (Juphreth") generally means “servant,” but in the NT is used for many different types of servants. See the note on the word “officers” in v. 22.

[5:26]  ⁵ tn Grk “brought them”; the referent (the apostles) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:26]  ⁶ tn Or “without violence.” It is clear, as well, that the apostles did not resist arrest.

[5:26]  ⁷ tn Grk “for they feared lest they be stoned by the people.” The translation uses a less awkward English equivalent. This is an explanatory note by the author.

[9:26]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:26]  ⁹ tn Or “join.”

[9:26]  ¹⁰ tn The participle πιστεύοντες (pisteuonte") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.

[27:17]  ¹¹ tn Grk “After hoisting it up, they…”; the referent (the ship’s crew) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:17]  ¹² tn The participle ἄραντες (arantes) has been taken temporally.

[27:17]  ¹³ tn Possibly “ropes” or “cables”; Grk “helps” (a word of uncertain meaning; probably a nautical technical term, BDAG 180 s.v. βοήθεια 2).

[27:17]  ¹⁴ tn BDAG 308 s.v. ἐκπίπτω 2 states, “drift off course, run aground, nautical term εἴς τι on someth….on the Syrtis 27:17.”

[27:17]  ¹⁵ tn That is, on the sandbars and shallows of the Syrtis.

[27:17]  sn On the Syrtis. The Syrtis was the name of two gulfs on the North African coast (modern Libya), feared greatly by sailors because of their shifting sandbars and treacherous shallows. The Syrtis here is the so-called Great Syrtis, toward Cyrenaica. It had a horrible reputation as a sailors’ graveyard (Pliny, Natural History 5.26). Josephus (J. W. 2.16.4 [2.381]) says the name alone struck terror in those who heard it. It was near the famous Scylla and Charybdis mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey.

[27:17]  ¹⁶ tn Or perhaps “mainsail.” The meaning of this word is uncertain. BDAG 927 s.v. σκεῦος 1 has “τὸ σκεῦος Ac 27:17 seems to be the kedge or driving anchor” while C. Maurer (TDNT 7:362) notes, “The meaning in Ac. 27:17: χαλάσαντες τὸ σκεῦος, is uncertain. Prob. the ref. is not so much to taking down the sails as to throwing the draganchor overboard to lessen the speed of the ship.” In spite of this L&N 6.1 states, “In Ac 27:17, for example, the reference of σκεῦος is generally understood to be the mainsail.” A reference to the sail is highly unlikely because in a storm of the force described in Ac 27:14, the sail would have been taken down and reefed immediately, to prevent its being ripped to shreds or torn away by the gale.