KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 24:6–7
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Acts 24:6
6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
6Who also hath gone about to profane the Temple: whom we tooke, and would haue iudged according to our lawe.
Acts 24:7
7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
7But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him away out of our hands:
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 24:6
Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.
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Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
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Not sacred or consecrated; to treat holy things as common.
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A house or place dedicated to divine worship; also the side of the head.
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Heard and determined; tried judicially; sentenced; censured; doomed.
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Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Acts 24:7
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
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Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
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Open the full verse study12And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
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Open the full verse study37For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
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Open the full verse study27And 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,
28Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
29(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
30And 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.
31And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
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Open the full verse study10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
12And 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.
15Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
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Open the full verse study31Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
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Open the full verse study7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
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Open the full verse study23And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
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