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OET (OET-LV) And going to_be_being_brought_in into the barracks, the Paulos is_saying to_the commander:
- is_it_permitting to_me to_say something to you?
And he was_saying:
You_are_knowing In_Hellaʸn?
OET (OET-RV) As they were able to carry him into the fortress, Paul called down to the commander, “Can I say something to you?”
¶ “You speak Greek!”, replied the commander.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
μέλλων & εἰσάγεσθαι εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν, ὁ Παῦλος
going & /to_be_being/_brought_in into the barracks ¬the Paul
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “as the soldiers were about to bring Paul inside the fortress, Paul”
Note 2 topic: translate-tense
ὁ Παῦλος λέγει
¬the Paul /is/_saying
To call attention to a development in the story, here Luke uses the present tense in past narration. If it would not be natural to do that in your language, you could use the past tense in your translation. Alternate translation: “Paul said”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
ὁ Παῦλος λέγει τῷ χιλιάρχῳ, εἰ ἔξεστίν μοι εἰπεῖν τι πρὸς σέ?
¬the Paul /is/_saying ˱to˲_the commander ¬If ˱it˲_/is/_permitting ˱to˲_me /to/_say something to you
Luke is recording how Paul used the typical form in his language for asking questions. It may be more natural in your language to have an indirect quotation here. Alternate translation: “Paul asked the chiliarch if it was permitted for him to say something to him”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
Ἑλληνιστὶ γινώσκεις?
in_Greek ˱you˲_/are/_knowing
The commander is using the question form to express surprise that Paul is not who he thought he was. If you would not use the question form for this purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: “You know Greek!”
21:37-40 The commander had mistaken Paul for an Egyptian false messiah who had planned to seize power from the Romans around AD 54 (roughly three years earlier; see Josephus, War 2.13.5). Paul corrected the mistake, gained permission to speak to the people, and addressed the crowd in Aramaic, the common language of Judea. He gave a strong statement of his faith in Jesus as the Messiah (Acts 22:1-21).
OET (OET-LV) And going to_be_being_brought_in into the barracks, the Paulos is_saying to_the commander:
- is_it_permitting to_me to_say something to you?
And he was_saying:
You_are_knowing In_Hellaʸn?
OET (OET-RV) As they were able to carry him into the fortress, Paul called down to the commander, “Can I say something to you?”
¶ “You speak Greek!”, replied the commander.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.