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Acts 26:21

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

KJV

ἕνεκα τούτων με Ἰουδαῖοι συλλαβόμενοι ὄντα ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἐπειρῶντο διαχειρίσασθαι.

Greek NT

Hac ex causa me Judæi, cum essem in templo, comprehensum tentabant interficere.

Vulgate

For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

ASV

For this cause, the Jews, when I was in the temple, having apprehended me, went about to kill me.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διαχειρίζομαι
diacheirizomai
verb · 2×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πειράω
peirao
verb · 1×
συλλαμβάνω
sullambano
verb · 16×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἕνεκα
eneka
preposition · 26×
ἱερόν
ieron
noun · 72×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: με Ἰουδαῖοι | WH/Treg/NIV: με Ἰουδαῖοι | RP: οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι με
  • με ἸουδαῖοιSBLGNT
  • με ἸουδαῖοιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι μεRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: συλλαβόμενοι | WH/Treg/RP: συλλαβόμενοι | NIV: + ὄντα
  • συλλαβόμενοιSBLGNT
  • συλλαβόμενοιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • + ὄνταReader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 1:10 — Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
  • Acts 21:27 — And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
  • Acts 21:27 — And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
  • Acts 21:30 — And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
  • Acts 21:30 — And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
  • Acts 24:18 — Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
  • Matt 2:14 — When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: