John 11:53
Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
KJV
ἀπ’ ἐκείνης οὖν τῆς ἡμέρας ἐβουλεύσαντο ἵνα ἀποκτείνωσιν αὐτόν.
Greek NT
Ab illo ergo die cogitaverunt ut interficerent eum.
Vulgate
So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.
ASV
From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βουλεύω
bouleuo
verb · 7×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἐβουλεύσαντο | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐβουλεύσαντο | RP: συνεβουλεύσαντο
- ἐβουλεύσαντο — SBLGNT
- ἐβουλεύσαντο — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- συνεβουλεύσαντο — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The heathen are stuck fast in the destruction which they made; in the trap which they hid is their foot taken. Psalm 9:15, Septuagint This has been the case with the Jews. They said that they would kill Jesus, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation; and when they had killed Him, these things happened unto them, and when they had done that by doing w…
Cross-references
- Acts 5:33 — When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
- Acts 9:23 — And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
- Gen 37:18 — And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
- Jer 11:9 — And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- John 7:19 — Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- John 8:37 — I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
- Mark 14:1 — After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
- Matt 10:23 — But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
- Matt 12:14 — Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.