Then the King, the Governor, Bernice, and all the others got up translates a clause which has a singular verb connected with four subjects joined in pairs of two each. Literally, the clause reads: “then the king got up and the governor, also Bernice and those with them.” However, in most languages a series of coordinate subjects is much more likely to be acceptable than any device to reproduce the rhetorical balance of the Greek expression.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .