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Acts 23:15

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Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

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Acts 23:15 in other translations

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.

Acts 23:15 · American Standard Version

Acts 23:15 in context

  1. 13There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
  2. 14They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
  3. 15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
  4. 16But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
  5. 17Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”