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Acts 21:18

And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

KJV

τῇ τε ἐπιούσῃ εἰσῄει ὁ Παῦλος σὺν ἡμῖν πρὸς Ἰάκωβον, πάντες τε παρεγένοντο οἱ πρεσβύτεροι.

Greek NT

Sequenti autem die introibat Paulus nobiscum ad Jacobum, omnesque collecti sunt seniores.

Vulgate

And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

ASV

And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all the ancients were assembled.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Παῦλος
paulos
noun · 158×
εἴσειμι
eiseimi
verb · 4×
παραγίνομαι
paraginomai
verb · 38×
πρεσβύτερος
presbuteros
adjective · 67×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σύν
sun
preposition · 129×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
ἐπιοῦσα
epiousa
verb · 5×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰάκωβος
iakobos
noun · 42×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

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

Covers the procurators from Fadus through Albinus. The critical passage is Ant. 20.9.1, where Josephus records the execution of "James, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ" by the high priest Ananus in AD 62. This is the second independent Josephan reference to Jesus, and unlike the Testimonium, its authenticity is virtually undisputed by scholars. Also covers the famine…
1. But after Paul, in consequence of his appeal to Cæsar, had been sent to Rome by Festus, the Jews, being frustrated in their hope of entrapping him by the snares which they had laid for him, turned against James, the brother of the Lord, to whom the episcopal seat at Jerusalem had been entrusted by the apostles. The following daring measures were undertaken by them against hi…

Cross-references

  • Acts 11:30 — Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
  • Acts 12:17 — But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And
  • Acts 15:13 — And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
  • Acts 24:11 — Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
  • Gal 1:19 — But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.
  • Gal 2:9 — And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen,
  • Jas 1:1 — James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.