Acts 18:12-17

Paul Accused Before the Proconsul Gallio

12 Now [when] Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one purpose against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

13 saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!"

14 But [when] Paul was about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it was some crime or wicked villainy, O Jews, {I would have been justified in accepting} your complaint.

15 But if it is questions concerning a word and names and {your own law}, see to [it] yourselves! I do not wish to be a judge of these [things]."

16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

17 So they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, [and] began beating [him] in front of the judgment seat. And none of these [things] was a concern to Gallio.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")
• [b]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was about")
• [c]. *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [d]. Literally "with respect to a motive I would have accepted"
• [e]. Literally "the according to you law"
• [f]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [g]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("seized") has been translated as a finite verb
• [h]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began beating")
• [i]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation