Acts 23:13

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There were more than forty who had formed this plot.

King James Version (1611)
And they were more then fourtie which had made this conspiracie.

King James Version
And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

English Standard Version
There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.

New American Standard Bible
There were more than forty who formed this plot.

New Century Version
There were more than forty men who made this plan.

Amplified Bible
There were more than forty [men] who formed this plot [and swore this oath].

Legacy Standard Bible
And there were more than forty who formed this scheme.

Berean Standard Bible
More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

Complete Jewish Bible
more than forty were involved in this plot.

Darby Translation
And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;

Easy-to-Read Version
There were more than 40 of them who made this plan.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they were more then fourtie, which had made this conspiracie.

George Lamsa Translation
And those who had sworn to this conspiracy were more than forty persons.

Good News Translation
There were more than forty who planned this together.

Lexham English Bible
Now there were more than forty who had made this conspiracy,

Literal Translation
And those making this plot were more than forty;

American Standard Version
And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy.

Bible in Basic English
And more than forty of them took this oath.

Hebrew Names Version
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

International Standard Version
More than forty men formed this conspiracy.

Etheridge Translation
But there were of those who established by oath this compact more than forty men.

Murdock Translation
And they who had established this compact by oath, were more than forty persons.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they were mo then fourtie men, which had made this conspiracie.

English Revised Version
And they were more than forty which made this conspiracy.

World English Bible
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they were more than forty, who had made this confederacy.

Weymouth's New Testament
There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And there weren mo than fourti men, that maden this sweryng togider.

Update Bible Version
And there were more than forty that made this conspiracy.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they were more than forty who had made this conspiracy.

New English Translation
There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

New King James Version
Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.

New Living Translation
There were more than forty of them in the conspiracy.

New Life Bible
There were more than forty of them who had made this promise.

New Revised Standard
There were more than forty who joined in this conspiracy.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they were, more than forty, who, this sworn-confederacy, had formed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.

Revised Standard Version
There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
They were aboute .xl. which had made this conspiracio.

Young's Literal Translation
and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They were mo then fortye, which had made this conspyracion.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the conspirators, who were above forty in number,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Over forty people made this pledge.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There were more than forty who formed this plot.

Contextual Overview

¹²Next day the Jews worked up a plot against Paul. They took a solemn oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed him. Over forty of them ritually bound themselves to this murder pact and presented themselves to the high priests and religious leaders. "We've bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul. But we need your help. Send a request from the council to the captain to bring Paul back so that you can investigate the charges in more detail. We'll do the rest. Before he gets anywhere near you, we'll have killed him. You won't be involved." ¹⁶Paul's nephew, his sister's son, overheard them plotting the ambush. He went immediately to the barracks and told Paul. Paul called over one of the centurions and said, "Take this young man to the captain. He has something important to tell him." ¹⁸ The centurion brought him to the captain and said, "The prisoner Paul asked me to bring this young man to you. He said he has something urgent to tell you." ¹⁹ The captain took him by the arm and led him aside privately. "What is it? What do you have to tell me?" ²⁰Paul's nephew said, "The Jews have worked up a plot against Paul. They're going to ask you to bring Paul to the council first thing in the morning on the pretext that they want to investigate the charges against him in more detail. But it's a trick to get him out of your safekeeping so they can murder him. Right now there are more than forty men lying in ambush for him. They've all taken a vow to neither eat nor drink until they've killed him. The ambush is set—all they're waiting for is for you to send him over." ²² The captain dismissed the nephew with a warning: "Don't breathe a word of this to a soul." ²³The captain called up two centurions. "Get two hundred soldiers ready to go immediately to Caesarea. Also seventy cavalry and two hundred light infantry. I want them ready to march by nine o'clock tonight. And you'll need a couple of mules for Paul and his gear. We're going to present this man safe and sound to Governor Felix." ²⁵Then he wrote this letter: From Claudius Lysias, to the Most Honorable Governor Felix: Greetings! I rescued this man from a Jewish mob. They had seized him and were about to kill him when I learned that he was a Roman citizen. So I sent in my soldiers. Wanting to know what he had done wrong, I had him brought before their council. It turned out to be a squabble turned vicious over some of their religious differences, but nothing remotely criminal. The next thing I knew, they had cooked up a plot to murder him. I decided that for his own safety I'd better get him out of here in a hurry. So I'm sending him to you. I'm informing his accusers that he's now under your jurisdiction. ³¹The soldiers, following orders, took Paul that same night to safety in Antipatris. In the morning the soldiers returned to their barracks in Jerusalem, sending Paul on to Caesarea under guard of the cavalry. The cavalry entered Caesarea and handed Paul and the letter over to the governor. ³⁴After reading the letter, the governor asked Paul what province he came from and was told "Cilicia." Then he said, "I'll take up your case when your accusers show up." He ordered him locked up for the meantime in King Herod's official quarters.

Bible Verse Review
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which: 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Samuel 15:31, John 16:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:31 - if the head Nehemiah 4:8 - all Psalms 83:5 - For Mark 6:24 - The head Galatians 5:11 - why

Cross-References

Genesis 23:5
The Hittites responded, "Why, you're no mere outsider here with us, you're a prince of God! Bury your dead wife in the best of our burial sites. None of us will refuse you a place for burial."

2 Samuel 24:24
But the king said to Araunah, "No. I've got to buy it from you for a good price; I'm not going to offer God , my God, sacrifices that are no sacrifice." So David bought the threshing floor and the ox, paying out fifty shekels of silver. He built an altar to God there and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. God was moved by the prayers and that was the end of the disaster.

Romans 13:8
Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.

Colossians 4:5
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.

Hebrews 13:5
Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. Who met together, formed this resolution, entered into this scheme, and bound themselves with this oath; the word rendered "conspiracy", signifies an agreement by oath; such a number of them banded together, that they might have strength sufficient to take Paul out of the hands of the soldiers, as he was conducted by them from the castle to the temple.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which had made this conspiracy - This oath συνωμοσίαν sunōmosian, this agreement, or compact. This large number of desperate men, bound by so solemn an oath, would be likely to be successful, and the life of Paul was therefore in special danger. The manner in which they purposed to accomplish their design is stated in Acts 23:15.