Acts 23:15

Translations

Modern

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

Traditional

Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

Literal

Now therefore, you, with the Council, make a report to the commander, so that he might bring him down to you as being about to examine more accurately the things about him. And we are ready to kill him before his drawing near.”

Latin

Nunc ergo vos notum facite tribuno cum concilio, ut producat illum ad vos, tamquam aliquid certius cognituri de eo. Nos vero priusquam appropiet, parati sumus interficere illum.

Original

Greek

English

Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

Notes

Acts 23:12–15

The plan to kill Paul was desperate. More than 40 men took an oath (a strong promise) not to eat or drink until they had killed him (compare 1 Samuel 14:24–46; Matthew 14:6–11; see also Deuteronomy 23:21–23; Matthew 5:33–37; James 5:12).

Theme notes and profiles

Paul (Saul) Persecution

Events

The conspiracy to kill Paulc. AD 54

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For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:11–12
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Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
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“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Acts 25:3
…to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

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