Acts 26:21 KJV — MannaFest

Acts 26:21

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

KJV

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ASV

For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

WEB

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

YLT

because of these things the Jews--having caught me in the temple--were endeavouring to kill me .

DBT

On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Acts 21:30–31
And 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.
Matthew 2:14
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Acts 21:27
And 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,
Acts 24:18
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
2 Corinthians 1:10
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

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He suffered ill, not only for doing well himself, but for doing good to others. They attempted to kill him; it was his precious life that they hunted for, and hated, because it was a useful life; they caught him in the temple worshipping God, and there they set upon him, as if the better place the better deed.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Of the doctrine which he had made it his business to preach to the Gentiles, which was so far from destroying the law and the prophets that it showed the fulfilling of both,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision--This musical and elevated strain, which carries the reader along with it, and doubtless did the hearers, bespeaks the lofty region of thought and feeling to which the apostle had risen while rehearsing his Master's communications to him from heaven.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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