Acts 21:20–26
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20And when* they heard this,* they began to glorify* God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous adherents of the law. 21And they have been informed about you that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles the abandonment of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their* children or to live according to ourf customs. 22What then is to be done?g Doubtless they will all hear that you have come! 23Therefore do this that we tell you: we haveh four men who have taken a vow upon themselves.i 24Take these men and* purify yourself along with them and pay their expensesj so that they can shave their* heads, and everyone will know that the things which they had been informed about you are nothing, but you yourself also agree with observing the law. 25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter after* deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.” 26Then Paul took along the men on the next day, and* after he* had purified himself together with them, he entered into the temple courts,* announcing the completion of the days of purification until the timek the offering would be presented on behalf of each one of them.
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- *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
- *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to glorify”)
- *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- fLiterally “according to the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- gLiterally “is it”
- hLiterally “there are to us”
- iSome manuscripts have “on themselves”
- *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“take”) has been translated as a finite verb
- jLiterally “spend on them”
- *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“deciding”) which is understood as temporal
- *Here “and” has been supplied in keeping with English style
- *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had purified”) which is understood as temporal
- *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
- kLiterally “which time”
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