OET interlinear ACTs 24:1

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-participants

ῥήτορος Τερτύλλου τινός

˓an˒_attorney Tertullus ˓a˒_certain

Luke is using the phrase a certain orator to introduce Tertullus as a new participant in the story. If your language has its own way of introducing new participants, you could use it here in your translation.

Note 2 topic: translate-unknown

ῥήτορος

˓an˒_attorney

In this context, the term orator means a person who spoke well and who was well acquainted with Roman law. Either an accuser or a defendant might employ such a person to argue a case for them in court. In your translation, you could use a term for someone in a comparable role in your culture. Alternate translation: [a courtroom lawyer]

Note 3 topic: translate-names

Τερτύλλου τινός

Tertullus ˓a˒_certain

The word Tertullus is the name of a man.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

κατέβη

came_down

Luke says that these men came down to Caesarea because that was the customary way of speaking about traveling from Jerusalem, since that city is up on a mountain. Use a natural way of referring to traveling downward in your language.