InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Acts C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28
Acts 1 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jesus Christ
Dictionary: Jesus
Used in these topics: The resurrection and ascension of Yeshua/Jesus · The return of Yeshua/Jesus, judgement and new creation
OET-LV And as they_were looking_intently into the sky, him going, also see two men in white clothing, had_stood_by to_them,
OET (OET-RV) As they stood there staring into the sky after he’d gone, suddenly two men in white clothes were standing beside them
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν
looking_intently ˱they˲_were into (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ὡς ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τόν οὐρανόν πορευομένου αὐτοῦ καί ἰδού ἄνδρες δύο παρειστήκεισαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς)
Since a cloud was able to block the apostles’ view, it is clear that Luke is using the word translated as heaven here in one of its specific senses to mean “sky.” It would be good to make clear that the apostles were not seeing into heaven itself. Alternate translation: [gazing at the sky]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄνδρες δύο
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ὡς ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τόν οὐρανόν πορευομένου αὐτοῦ καί ἰδού ἄνδρες δύο παρειστήκεισαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς)
Luke is using the term behold to focus readers’ attention on how suddenly these two men appeared. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation. Alternate translation: [just then two men]
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential
καὶ
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Καί ὡς ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τόν οὐρανόν πορευομένου αὐτοῦ καί ἰδού ἄνδρες δύο παρειστήκεισαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς)
Luke uses the word translated as And to indicate that the event of the men appearing happened after the event of Jesus going up. Alternate translation: [Then]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἄνδρες δύο
men two
These were actually angels. Luke calls them men because they appeared in human form. Alternate translation: [two angels]
ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς
clothing white
In this context, the word white likely has the specific sense of “bright” or “shining.” Alternate translation: [bright clothes] or [shining clothes]
OET-LV And as they_were looking_intently into the sky, him going, also see two men in white clothing, had_stood_by to_them,
OET (OET-RV) As they stood there staring into the sky after he’d gone, suddenly two men in white clothes were standing beside them
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.