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Festus Consults Agrippa

Acts 25:15

In 9 translations

BSB
While I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews presented their case and requested a judgment against him.
KJV
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
WEB
about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
ASV
about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for sentence against him.
LSV
about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,
YLT
about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,
DBY
concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him:
DRC
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests, and the ancients of the Jews, came unto me, desiring condemnation against him.
GNV
Of whom when I came to Hierusalem, the high Priestes and Elders of the Iewes informed me, and desired to haue iudgement against him.

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read καταδίκην (“penalty”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read δίκην (“judgment”).
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  • SBLGNT: καταδίκην. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καταδίκην; Robinson–Pierpont read δίκην.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
περὶ οὗ γενομένου μου εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ἐνεφάνισαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τῶν Ἰουδαίων, αἰτούμενοι κατʼ αὐτοῦ καταδίκην·
RP2018
περὶ οὗ, γενομένου μου εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, ἐνεφάνισαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τῶν Ἰουδαίων, αἰτούμενοι κατ’ αὐτοῦ δίκην.
TR-Boyd
περὶ οὗ, γενομένου μου εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, ἐνεφάνισαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τῶν Ἰουδαίων, αἰτούμενοι κατ᾿ αὐτοῦ δίκην.
SCR1894
περι ου γενομενου μου εις ιεροσολυμα ενεφανισαν οι αρχιερεις και οι πρεσβυτεροι των ιουδαιων αιτουμενοι κατ αυτου δικην

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 24:1Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
  • Luke 23:23But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.
  • Luke 18:3–5And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men, yet because this…
  • Acts 25:1–3Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem, where the chief priests and Jewish leaders presented their case against Paul. They urged Festus to grant them a concession…
  • Esther 3:9If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

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