The terms rendered officers and commander (New English Bible “centurions” and “commandant”) in this verse are literally “men in charge of one hundred men” and “a man in charge of a thousand men.”
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 .
