Acts 23:15
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.
KJV
νῦν οὖν ὑμεῖς ἐμφανίσατε τῷ χιλιάρχῳ σὺν τῷ συνεδρίῳ ὅπως καταγάγῃ αὐτὸν εἰς ὑμᾶς ὡς μέλλοντας διαγινώσκειν ἀκριβέστερον τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ· ἡμεῖς δὲ πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι αὐτὸν ἕτοιμοί ἐσμεν τοῦ ἀνελεῖν αὐτόν.
Greek NT
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.
Vulgate
Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
ASV
Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ὅπως — SBLGNT
- ὅπως — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + αὔριον — Robinson-Pierpont
- καταγάγῃ αὐτὸν εἰς — SBLGNT
- καταγάγῃ αὐτὸν εἰς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτὸν καταγάγῃ πρὸς — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 22:30 — On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brough
- Acts 22:30 — On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brough
- Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Mic 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Prov 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Prov 1:16 — For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Ps 21:11 — For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Ps 35:20 — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Ps 37:32 — The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
- Rom 3:14 — Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: