In keeping with acceptable Greek style, there is no verb answered in the text, but it must be supplied from the context (see 25.22; 26.1).

The word rendered sober is a term used in other contexts as the exact opposite of mad (that is, “out of one’s mind”). The final sentence of verse 25 may be translated as “what I am saying to you is true, and I am speaking like a person completely sane.” This type of restructuring may be required, since one can speak of words as true, but only of persons as being sane.

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 .