Adverb malista (especially) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Acts

20: 38grieving especially (malista) because of what he had said, that they would not see him again. Then they brought him to the ship.
25: 26But I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially (malista) before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write
26: 3because you are especially (malista) familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg of you to listen to me patiently.