Acts 5:36–37

5:36 For some time ago97 Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He98 was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.99 5:37 After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census,100 and incited people to follow him in revolt.101 He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.

97	tn Grk “For before these days.”
98	tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was replaced by the pronoun “he,” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point.
99	tn Grk “and they came to nothing.” Gamaliel’s argument is that these two insurrectionists were taken care of by natural events.
100	tn Or “registration.”
101	tn The verb ἀφίστημι (aphistēmi) as a transitive means “cause to revolt” as used in Josephus, Ant. 8.7.5 (8.198), 20.5.2 (20.102); see BDAG 157 s.v. 1.