OET interlinear ACTs 4:31

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-endofstory

καὶ

and

This verse is the end of the whole story of how the lame man was healed and how Peter and John were arrested as a result. Luke uses the word translated And to introduce information about what happened after the story as a result of the events within the story itself. Your language may have its own way of indicating how such information relates to a story.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐν ᾧ ἦσαν συνηγμένοι

in which ˱they˲_were /having_been/_gathered_together

If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this with an active form. Alternate translation: “where they had gathered together”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐσαλεύθη

/was/_shaken

If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this with an active form. Alternate translation: “shook”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐπλήσθησαν ἅπαντες τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος

/were/_filled all the Holy Spirit

If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this with an active form. See how you translated the same expression in 2:4. Alternate translation: “the Holy Spirit filled them all”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἐπλήσθησαν ἅπαντες τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος

/were/_filled all the Holy Spirit

Luke is speaking as if the believers were containers that the Holy Spirit filled. Alternate translation: “the Holy Spirit inspired them all”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ

the word ¬the ˱of˲_God

Luke is using the term word to mean the message that God wanted the believers to share by using words. Alternate translation: “the message from God”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

μετὰ παρρησίας

with boldness

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word boldness, you could express the same idea with an adverb such as “boldly.” Alternate translation: “boldly”