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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.

KJV

ὃν εὗρον ἐγκαλούμενον περὶ ζητημάτων τοῦ νόμου αὐτῶν, μηδὲν δὲ ἄξιον θανάτου ἢ δεσμῶν ἔχοντα ἔγκλημα.

Greek NT

Quem inveni accusari de quæstionibus legis ipsorum, nihil vero dignum morte aut vinculis habentem criminis.

Vulgate

whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

ASV

Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεσμόν
desmon
noun · 18×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
ζήτημα
zetema
noun · 5×
θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
μηδείς
medeis
adjective · 92×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
ἄξιος
axios
adjective · 41×
ἐγκαλέω
egkaleo
verb · 7×
ἔγκλημα
egklema
noun · 2×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
e
particle · 346×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ
  • δὲSBLGNT
  • δὲWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἔχοντα ἔγκλημα | WH/Treg/NIV: ἔχοντα ἔγκλημα | RP: ἔγκλημα ἔχοντα
  • ἔχοντα ἔγκλημαSBLGNT
  • ἔχοντα ἔγκλημαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἔγκλημα ἔχονταRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 18:15 — But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
  • Acts 18:15 — But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
  • 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 a
  • Acts 25:7 — And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
  • Acts 25:11 — For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto
  • Acts 25:19 — But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  • Acts 25:19 — But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  • Acts 25:25 — But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
  • Acts 25:25 — But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
  • Acts 26:31 — And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
  • Acts 26:31 — And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
  • Acts 28:18 — Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
  • Acts 28:18 — Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
  • Deut 21:22 — And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
  • Jer 26:16 — Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.