Acts 23:32

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The next day, they returned to the barracks, allowing the cavalry to go on with him.

King James Version (1611)
On the morow, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned to the castle.

King James Version
On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

English Standard Version
And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him.

New American Standard Bible
But on the next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

New Century Version
The next day the horsemen went with Paul to Caesarea, but the other soldiers went back to the army building in Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.

Berean Standard Bible
The next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.

Contemporary English Version
The next day the foot soldiers returned to the fortress and let the soldiers on horseback take him the rest of the way.

Complete Jewish Bible
then returned to the barracks after leaving the cavalry to go on with him.

Darby Translation
and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress.

Easy-to-Read Version
The next day the soldiers on horses went with Paul to Caesarea, but the other soldiers and the spearmen went back to the army building in Jerusalem.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the next day, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned vnto the Castel.

George Lamsa Translation
And the next day the horsemen dismissed the footmen so that they might return to the castle:

Good News Translation
The next day the foot soldiers returned to the fort and left the horsemen to go on with him.

Lexham English Bible
And on the next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

Literal Translation
And on the morrow, allowing the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the fortress.

American Standard Version
But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

Bible in Basic English
But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:

Hebrew Names Version
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

International Standard Version
The next day they let the horsemen ride on with him while they returned to their barracks.

Etheridge Translation
and the day after the horsemen sent away their foot-companions to return to the fortress.

Murdock Translation
And the next day, the horsemen dismissed the footmen their associates, that they might return to the castle.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
On the morowe, they left the horsmen to go with hym, and returned vnto the castle.

English Revised Version
But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

World English Bible
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
On the morrow they returned to the castle, leaving the horsemen to go with him:

Weymouth's New Testament
The next day the infantry returned to the barracks, leaving the cavalry to proceed with him;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And in the dai suynge, whanne the horsmen weren left, that schulden go with hym, thei turneden ayen to the castels.

Update Bible Version
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

Webster's Bible Translation
On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

New English Translation
The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

New King James Version
The next day they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the barracks.

New Living Translation
They returned to the fortress the next morning, while the mounted troops took him on to Caesarea.

New Life Bible
The next day they went back to their building in Jerusalem. The men riding horses went on with Paul.

New Revised Standard
The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, while they returned to the barracks.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, on the morrow, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, returned to the castle, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they returned to the castle.

Revised Standard Version
And on the morrow they returned to the barracks, leaving the horsemen to go on with him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
On the morowe they lefte horsmen to goo with him and returned vnto the castle.

Young's Literal Translation
and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But on the nexte daye, they lefte ye horse men to go with him, and turned agayne to the castell.

Mace New Testament (1729)
on the morrow they march'd back to the castle, having left him to the custody of the horse:

Simplified Cowboy Version
The next morning, the cavalry took him the rest of the way to Caesarea.

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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Reciprocal: Acts 24:11 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him,.... That is, the two hundred soldiers, and the two hundred spearmen, who were all on foot, left the seventy horsemen to conduct Paul to Caesarea; for being come to Antipatris, all danger from the Jews was over:

and returned to the castle; the castle Antonia in Jerusalem, from whence they set out.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They left the horsemen - As they were then beyond the danger of the conspirators, the soldiers who had guarded them thus far returned to Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. On the morrow they left the horsemen — Being now so far from Jerusalem, they considered Paul in a state of safety from the Jews, and that the seventy horse would be a sufficient guard; the four hundred foot, therefore, returned to Jerusalem, and the horse went on to Caesarea with Paul. We need not suppose that all this troop did reach Antipatris on the same night in which they left Jerusalem; therefore, instead of, they brought him by night to Antipatris, we may understand the text thus-Then the soldiers took Paul by night, and brought him to Antipatris. And the thirty-second verse need not to be understood as if the foot reached the castle of Antonia the next day, (though all this was possible,) but that, having reached Antipatris, and refreshed themselves, they set out the same day, on their march to Jerusalem; on the morrow they returned, that is, they began their march back again to the castle. Acts 24:1; Acts 24:1.