Acts 23:28
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts 23:28 in other translations
| BSB | and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin. |
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| WEB | Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council. |
| ASV | And desiring to know the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him down unto their council: |
| YLT | and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim, |
| DARBY | And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council; |
| BBE | And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin: |
| Webster | And when I would have known the cause for which they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: |
What does Acts 23:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 23:26-30
26-30. Claudius--the Roman name he would take on purchasing his citizenship. Lysias--his Greek family name. the most excellent governor--an honorary title of office.
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 23:25-35
God has instruments for every work. The natural abilities and moral virtues of the heathens often have been employed to protect his persecuted servants. Even the men of the world can discern between the conscientious conduct of upright believers, and the zeal of false professors, though they disregard or understand not their doctrinal principles. All hearts are in God's hand, and those are blessed who put their…
Acts 23:28 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 23:28
- Acts 22:30
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
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Context
- Acts 23:27
This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
- Acts 23:28
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
- Acts 23:29
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts 23:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y queriendo saber la causa por qué le acusaban, le llevé al concilio de ellos: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et voulant connaître le motif pour lequel ils l’accusaient, je l’ai fait descendre devant leur sanhédrin; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da ich aber die Ursache wissen wollte, weswegen sie ihn anklagten, führte ich ihn in ihr Synedrium hinab. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Volensque scire causam quam objiciebant illi, deduxi eum in concilium eorum. |