Acts 23:9 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 23:9

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

BSB

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ASV

And there arose a great clamor: and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

KJV

And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ammonius of Alexandria

CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 23.9 (300)

"What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?" These words are obscure or something is missing for the completion of the sentence, which would be, "If a spirit or an angel has told to him what to say in order to avoid …

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A great cry - A great clamor and tumult. The scribes - The learned men. They would naturally be the chief speakers. Of the Pharisees’ part - Who were Pharisees, or who belonged to that party. The scribes were not a distinct sect, but might be either Pharisees or Sadducees. We find no evil in this man - No opinion which is contrary to the Law of Moses; no conduct in spreading the doctrine of the resurrection which we do not approve.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(The following words, "Let us not fight against God," seem not to belong to the original text, and perhaps are from Ac 5:39. In this case, either the meaning is, "If he has had some divine communication, what of that?" or, the conclusion of the sentence may have been drowned in the hubbub, which Ac 23:10 shows to have been intense).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee--The true reading seems to be, "the son of Pharisees," that is, belonging to a family who from father to son had long been such. of the hope and resurrection of the dead--that is, not the vague hope of immortality, but the definite expectation of the resurrection.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐγένετο	Egeneto	Arose	G1096 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
κραυγὴ	kraugē	a clamor	G2906 →
μεγάλη·	megalē	great;	G3173 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀναστάντες	anastantes	having risen up	G450 →
τινὲς	tines	some	G5100 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
γραμματέων	grammateōn	scribes	G1122 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
μέρους	merous	party	G3313 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
Φαρισαίων	Pharisaiōn	Pharisees	G5330 →
διεμάχοντο	diemachonto	they were contending	G1264 →
λέγοντες·	legontes	saying;	G3004 →
οὐδὲν	ouden	No [thing]	G3762 →
κακὸν	kakon	evil	G2556 →
εὑρίσκομεν	heuriskomen	we find	G2147 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνθρώπῳ	anthrōpō	man	G444 →
τούτῳ·	toutō	this;	G3778 →
εἰ	ei	What if	G1487 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	a spirit	G4151 →
ἐλάλησεν	elalēsen	has spoken	G2980 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to him	G846 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
ἄγγελος	angelos	an angel	G32 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 12:29
The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
leads to
- Job 37:2–5
  Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- Revelation 14:2
  And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
- Revelation 6:1
  Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thunderous voice, “Come!”
Through
Acts 26:31
On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”
leads to
- Acts 23:29
  I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.
Through
Acts 22:7
I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:9
  Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
Through
Mark 2:16
When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
leads to
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Luke 19:7
  And all who saw this began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinful man!”
- Luke 18:11
  The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

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