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 C1 C2 C3 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 4 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35 V36 V37
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Alexander (Son of Simon) · Annas · Caiaphas · God · John (Relative of the High Priest)
OET-LV And they having_further_threatened them sent_ them _away, finding nothing which how they_may_punish them, because_of the people, because all were_glorifying the god for the thing having_become.
OET (OET-RV) So after making some further threats, the leaders sent them off. They hadn’t been able to find anything to punish them for, because the people were all praising God for what had happened
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
οἱ δὲ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς
they (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ Δέ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς μηδέν εὑρίσκοντες τό πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς διά τόν λαόν ὅτι πάντες ἐδόξαζον τόν Θεόν ἐπί τῷ γεγονότι)
The pronoun them refers in both instances to Peter and John, and the pronoun they refers to the council members. It may be helpful to your readers to clarify this. Alternate translation: [having warned Peter and John further, the council members released them]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
διὰ τὸν λαόν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ Δέ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς μηδέν εὑρίσκοντες τό πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς διά τόν λαόν ὅτι πάντες ἐδόξαζον τόν Θεόν ἐπί τῷ γεγονότι)
The implication is that the Jewish leaders were afraid that the people would riot if they punished Peter and John. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. It may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: [They were afraid that if they did punish Peter and John, the people would riot]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
πάντες ἐδόξαζον τὸν Θεὸν
all ˓were˒_glorifying (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ Δέ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς μηδέν εὑρίσκοντες τό πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς διά τόν λαόν ὅτι πάντες ἐδόξαζον τόν Θεόν ἐπί τῷ γεγονότι)
Here, all is a generalization for emphasis. Alternate translation: [large numbers of them were glorifying God]
OET-LV And they having_further_threatened them sent_ them _away, finding nothing which how they_may_punish them, because_of the people, because all were_glorifying the god for the thing having_become.
OET (OET-RV) So after making some further threats, the leaders sent them off. They hadn’t been able to find anything to punish them for, because the people were all praising God for what had happened
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.