Acts 20:3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
KJV
ποιήσας τε μῆνας τρεῖς γενομένης ἐπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων μέλλοντι ἀνάγεσθαι εἰς τὴν Συρίαν ἐγένετο γνώμης τοῦ ὑποστρέφειν διὰ Μακεδονίας.
Greek NT
ubi cum fecisset menses tres, factæ sunt illi insidiæ a Judæis navigaturo in Syriam : habuitque consilium ut reverteretur per Macedoniam.
Vulgate
And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
ASV
Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria. So he took a resolution to return through Macedonia.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἐπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ — SBLGNT
- ἐπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- γνώμης — SBLGNT
- γνώμης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- γνώμη — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Cor 7:5 — For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
- 2Cor 11:26 — In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, i
- Acts 9:23 — And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
- Acts 9:24 — But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
- Acts 20:19 — Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
- Acts 20:19 — Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
- Acts 25:3 — And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.