Verse 24
Acts 23:24
Bible in Basic English
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And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.
Original Language Text
greek
κτήνη τε παραστῆσαι ἵνα ἐπιβιβάσαντες τὸν Παῦλον διασώσωσι πρὸς Φήλικα τὸν ἡγεμόνα,
English Translation
to provide beasts so that having boarded Paul they might bring him safely to Felix the governor,
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Chapter 23 Context
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And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God (...
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And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth...
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Then Paul said to him, God (Elohim) will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be...
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And those who were near said, Do you say such words against God (Elohim)'s high priest?
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And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not...
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But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin,...
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And when he had said this, there was an argument between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and a divi...
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For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the...
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And there was a great outcry: and some of the scribes on the side of the Pharisees got up and took p...
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And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in t...
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And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witn...
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And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no...
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And more than forty of them took this oath.
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And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no fo...
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So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down...
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But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news o...
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And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him.
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So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this...
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And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you hav...
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And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on th...
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But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath n...
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So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given m...
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And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hun...
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And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.
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And he sent a letter in these words:
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Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.
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This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with t...
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And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:
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Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against hi...
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And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straig...
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So the armed men, as they were ordered, took Paul and came by night to Antipatris.
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But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:
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And they, when they came to Caesarea, gave the letter to the ruler, and took Paul before him.
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And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was f...
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I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave or...
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