KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 23:21–24
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Acts 23:21
21But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
21But do not thou yeeld vnto them: for there lie in wait for him of them moe then fourtie men, which haue bound themselues with an othe, that they will neither eate nor drinke, till they haue killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
Acts 23:22
22So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
22So the chiefe captaine then let the yong man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man, that thou hast shewed these things to me.
Acts 23:23
23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
23And he called vnto him two Centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred souldiers to goe to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearemen two hundred, at the third houre of the night.
Acts 23:24
24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
24And prouide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe vnto Felix the gouernour.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 23:21
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To produce or give forth; to give, surrender, submit, grant, or allow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to four times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Made fast, tied, confined, or obligated; destined or going toward; as a verb, to set a limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Until a stated time or event; also to cultivate the ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Deprived of life; quelled; calmed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An assurance or pledge that something will be done or given; as a verb, to give such an assurance or pledge.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Acts 23:22
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow. To leave; to forsake; to abandon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Commanded or strictly instructed; entrusted with a duty or person; accused; or burdened or laid upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To speak, relate, count, declare, inform, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To show: to reveal, declare, display, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Acts 23:23
Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
centurions
Roman officers commanding companies of about one hundred soldiers.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To prepare or make ready.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Persons engaged or enlisted in military service.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Men who ride horses, especially soldiers serving on horseback.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
threescore
Thrice twenty; sixty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Following the second in order; one of three equal parts, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Acts 23:24
To consider beforehand; to make provision or take thought for.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Free from danger, harm, loss, or capture; brought or kept securely.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A ruler, chief officer, or person entrusted with authority over others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study12And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
14And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
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Open the full verse study26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
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Open the full verse study5And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
6They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
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Open the full verse study19Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
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Open the full verse study3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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Open the full verse study23¶ And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
24But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
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Open the full verse study2¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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Open the full verse study3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Open the full verse study32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
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Open the full verse study44And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study33Who, when they came to Cæsarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
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Open the full verse study40But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.
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Open the full verse study38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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Open the full verse study25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study26Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
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Open the full verse study10Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
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Open the full verse study14And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
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Open the full verse study22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
23And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
24And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
26He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
27But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
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Open the full verse study12Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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Open the full verse study34And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
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Open the full verse study1NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
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Open the full verse study2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
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Open the full verse study12¶ And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
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