The so-called “we” sections resume at this point, but whom does Luke indicate by us in this passage? There are three principal possibilities: (1) us may include only Luke and Paul; or (2) us may refer to an indefinite number of Christians from Philippi, among whom was included the author himself; or (3) it may be that only Tychicus and Trophimus went on ahead, since they were from Asia and were known by the churches there, and hence us would refer to the other persons listed as well as Luke. In any event, the pronoun us is exclusive in languages which have the inclusive-exclusive contrast for the first person plural.

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 .