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Acts 16:23

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

KJV

πολλάς τε ἐπιθέντες αὐτοῖς πληγὰς ἔβαλον εἰς φυλακήν, παραγγείλαντες τῷ δεσμοφύλακι ἀσφαλῶς τηρεῖν αὐτούς·

Greek NT

Et cum multas plagas eis imposuissent, miserunt eos in carcerem, præcipientes custodi ut diligenter custodiret eos.

Vulgate

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

ASV

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βάλλω
ballo
verb · 125×
δεσμοφύλαξ
desmophulax
noun · 3×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
παραγγέλλω
paraggello
verb · 30×
πληγή
plege
noun · 22×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
τηρέω
tereo
verb · 71×
φυλακή
phulake
noun · 46×
ἀσφαλῶς
asphalos
adverb · 3×
ἐπιτίθημι
epitithemi
verb · 39×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: τε | Treg/NIV/RP: τε | WH: δὲ
  • τεSBLGNT
  • τεTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • δὲWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:11 — Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
  • 1Sam 23:22 — Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
  • 2Tim 2:9 — Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
  • Acts 5:41 — And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
  • Dan 3:20 — And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
  • Luke 4:29 — And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
  • Matt 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
  • Phil 1:7 — Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
  • Rev 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and