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Acts 23

Acts 23:1

AND PAUL, EARNESTLY BEHOLDING THE COUNCIL, SAID, MEN AND BRETHREN, I HAVE LIVED IN ALL GOOD CONSCIENCE BEFORE GOD UNTIL THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:3

THEN SAID PAUL UNTO HIM, GOD SHALL SMITE THEE, THOU WHITED WALL; FOR SITTEST THOU TO JUDGE ME AFTER THE LAW, AND COMMANDEST ME TO BE SMITTEN CONTRARY TO THE LAW?... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:5

THEN SAID PAUL, I WIST NOT, BRETHREN, THAT HE WAS THE HIGH PRIEST; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK EVIL OF THE RULER OF THY PEOPLE. The hearing had been opened by the Roman tribune, Lysias. The members of the Sanhedrin were sitting or standing around in a semicircle, with Paul facing them, a... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:6

BUT WHEN PAUL PERCEIVED THAT THE ONE PART WERE SADDUCEES AND THE OTHER PHARISEES, HE CRIED OUT IN THE COUNCIL, MEN AND BRETHREN, I AM A PHARISEE, THE SON OF A PHARISEE; OF THE HOPE AND RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD I AM CALLED IN QUESTION.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:7

AND WHEN HE HAD SO SAID, THERE AROSE A DISSENSION BETWEEN THE PHARISEES AND THE SADDUCEES; AND THE MULTITUDE WAS DIVIDED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:8

FOR THE SADDUCEES SAY THAT THERE IS NO RESURRECTION, NEITHER ANGEL, NOR SPIRIT; BUT THE PHARISEES CONFESS BOTH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:9

AND THERE AROSE A GREAT CRY; AND THE SCRIBES THAT WERE OF THE PHARISEES' PART AROSE AND STROVE, SAYING, WE FIND NO EVIL IN THIS MAN; BUT IF A SPIRIT OR AN ANGEL HATH SPOKEN TO HIM, LET US NOT FIGHT AGAINST GOD. Paul had come down to the meeting in the hope that there would be a real hearing. He had... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:10

AND WHEN THERE AROSE A GREAT DISSENSION, THE CHIEF CAPTAIN, FEARING LEST PAUL SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED IN PIECES OF THEM, COMMANDED THE SOLDIERS TO GO DOWN, AND TO TAKE HIM BY FORCE FROM AMONG THEM, AND TO BRING HIM INTO THE CASTLE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:11

AND THE NIGHT FOLLOWING THE LORD STOOD BY HIM AND SAID, BE OF GOOD CHEER, PAUL; FOR AS THOU HAST TESTIFIED OF ME IN JERUSALEM, SO MUST THOU BEAR WITNESS ALSO AT ROME. As the uproar of the Jews concerning Paul became greater and more violent with every minute, the chiliarch, more of an interested spe... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:12

AND WHEN IT WAS DAY, CERTAIN OF THE JEWS BANDED TOGETHER, AND BOUND THEMSELVES UNDER A CURSE, SAYING THAT THEY WOULD NEITHER EAT NOR DRINK TILL THEY HAD KILLED PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:14

AND THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS AND SAID, WE HAVE BOUND OURSELVES UNDER A GREAT CURSE THAT WE WILL EAT NOTHING UNTIL WE HAVE SLAIN PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:15

NOW, THEREFORE, YE WITH THE COUNCIL SIGNIFY TO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN THAT HE BRING HIM DOWN UNTO YOU TOMORROW AS THOUGH YE WOULD ENQUIRE SOMETHING MORE PERFECTLY CONCERNING HIM; AND WE, OR EVER HE COME NEAR, ARE READY TO KILL HIM. It is not difficult to imagine what happened in the assembly of the Jews... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:17

THEN PAUL CALLED ONE OF THE CENTURIONS UNTO HIM AND SAID, BRING THIS YOUNG MAN UNTO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN; FOR HE HATH A CERTAIN THING TO TELL HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:18

SO HE TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN, AND SAID, PAUL, THE PRISONER, CALLED ME UNTO HIM, AND PRAYED ME TO BRING THIS YOUNG MAN UNTO THEE, WHO HATH SOMETHING TO SAY UNTO THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:19

THEN THE CHIEF CAPTAIN TOOK HIM BY THE HAND, AND WENT WITH HIM ASIDE PRIVATELY, AND ASKED HIM, WHAT IS THAT THOU HAST TO TELL ME?... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:20

AND HE SAID, THE JEWS HAVE AGREED TO DESIRE THEE THAT THOU WOULDEST BRING DOWN PAUL TOMORROW INTO THE COUNCIL, AS THOUGH THEY WOULD ENQUIRE SOMEWHAT OF HIM MORE PERFECTLY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:21

BUT DO NOT THOU YIELD UNTO THEM; FOR THERE LIE IN WAIT FOR HIM OF THEM MORE THAN FORTY MEN, WHICH HAVE BOUND THEMSELVES WITH AN OATH THAT THEY WILL NEITHER EAT NOR DRINK TILL THEY HAVE KILLED HIM; AND NOW ARE THEY READY, LOOKING FOR A PROMISE FROM THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:22

SO THE CHIEF CAPTAIN THEN LET THE YOUNG MAN DEPART, AND CHARGED HIM, SEE THOU TELL NO MAN THAT THOU HAST SHOWED THESE THINGS TO ME. We have here the first and only direct reference to the family to which Paul belonged, his sister's son, his nephew, being introduced into the story. Whether Paul's sis... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:23

AND HE CALLED UNTO HIM TWO CENTURIONS, SAYING, MAKE READY TWO HUNDRED SOLDIERS TO GO TO CAESAREA, AND HORSEMEN THREE SCORE AND TEN, AND SPEARMEN TWO HUNDRED, AT THE THIRD HOUR OF THE NIGHT;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:27

THIS MAN WAS TAKEN OF THE JEWS, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED OF THEM; THEN CAME I WITH AN ARMY AND RESCUED HIM, HAVING UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS A ROMAN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:29

WHOM I PERCEIVED TO BE ACCUSED OF QUESTIONS OF THEIR LAW, BUT TO HAVE NOTHING LAID TO HIS CHARGE WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:30

AND WHEN IT WAS TOLD ME HOW THAT THE JEWS LAID WAIT FOR THE MAN, I SENT STRAIGHTWAY TO THEE, AND GAVE COMMANDMENT TO HIS ACCUSERS ALSO TO SAY BEFORE THEE WHAT THEY HAD AGAINST HIM. FAREWELL. It is to the credit of Lysias that he chose the course which both justice and prudence dictated. By ignoring... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:34

AND WHEN THE GOVERNOR HAD READ THE LETTER, HE ASKED OF WHAT PROVINCE HE WAS. AND WHEN HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS OF CILICIA,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 23:35

I WILL HEAR THEE, SAID HE, WHEN THINE ACCUSERS ARE ALSO COME, AND HE COMMANDED HIM TO BE KEPT IN HEROD'S JUDGMENT-HALL. The start from Jerusalem was made by night, to attract as little attention as possible, and the armed escort was so strong that it could easily have warded off the attack of a band... [ Continue Reading ]

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