OET interlinear ACTs 8:25

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential

οὖν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ μέν Οὖν διαμαρτυράμενοι καί λαλήσαντες τόν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου ὑπέστρεφον εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα πολλάς τέ κώμας τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν εὐηγγελίζοντο)

Luke is using the word translated as Then to introduce what Peter and John did after being in the city where Philip had been telling the Samaritans about Jesus. Alternate translation: [After that,]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

οἱ & διαμαρτυράμενοι καὶ λαλήσαντες τὸν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου

they & ˓having˒_testified (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ μέν Οὖν διαμαρτυράμενοι καί λαλήσαντες τόν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου ὑπέστρεφον εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα πολλάς τέ κώμας τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν εὐηγγελίζοντο)

The ones Luke is describing are Peter and John. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: [Peter and John, after they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord,]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

οἱ & διαμαρτυράμενοι καὶ λαλήσαντες

they & ˓having˒_testified (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ μέν Οὖν διαμαρτυράμενοι καί λαλήσαντες τόν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου ὑπέστρεφον εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα πολλάς τέ κώμας τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν εὐηγγελίζοντο)

Luke is using the participles having testified and having spoken, which function as adjectives, as nouns. ULT adds the term ones to show this. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this with an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: [the ones who had testified and spoken]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τὸν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ μέν Οὖν διαμαρτυράμενοι καί λαλήσαντες τόν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου ὑπέστρεφον εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα πολλάς τέ κώμας τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν εὐηγγελίζοντο)

Luke is using the term word to mean the message about Jesus that Peter and John shared by using words. Alternate translation: [the message about Jesus]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

πολλάς & κώμας τῶν Σαμαρειτῶν

many & villages ˱of˲_the Samaritans

The term villages refers by association to the people who lived in these villages. Alternate translation: [to the people in many Samaritan villages]