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Gamaliel’s Advice

Acts 5:33

In 9 translations

BSB
When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.ECM, BYZ, TR, and Tischendorf; or they took counsel; NA, SBL, NE, and WH they wanted
KJV
¶ When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
WEB
But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
ASV
But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were minded to slay them.
LSV
And they having heard, were cut [to the heart], and were intending to slay them,
YLT
And they having heard, were cut [to the heart], and were taking counsel to slay them,
DBY
But they, when they heard [these things], were cut to the heart, and took counsel to kill them.
DRC
When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they thought to put them to death.
GNV
Now when they heard it, they brast for anger, and consulted to slay them.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus read ἀκούσαντες (“having heard”); Byzantine text read ἀκούοντες (“hearing”).
  • NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read ἐβούλοντο (“they were desiring”); NA28, Textus Receptus read ἐβουλεύοντο (“they were determining”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἀκούσαντες. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀκούσαντες; Robinson–Pierpont read ἀκούοντες.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες διεπρίοντο καὶ ἐβούλοντο ἀνελεῖν αὐτούς.
RP2018
Οἱ δὲ ἀκούοντες διεπρίοντο, καὶ ἐβουλεύοντο ἀνελεῖν αὐτούς.
TR-Boyd
Οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες διεπρίοντο, καὶ ἐβουλεύοντο ἀνελεῖν αὐτούς.
SCR1894
οι δε ακουσαντες διεπριοντο και εβουλευοντο ανελειν αυτους

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◆ Apostles arrested, put on trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
  • Luke 4:28–29On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged. They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
  • Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
  • Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
  • John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
  • Matthew 10:25It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
  • Luke 11:50–54As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar…
  • Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
  • Matthew 23:34–35Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all…
  • Genesis 4:5–8but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen? If you do what is right, will you…
  • Psalms 37:12–15The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them, but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming. The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay…
  • Psalms 37:32–33Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them, the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
  • Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
  • Psalms 64:2–8Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly,…
  • Luke 19:45–48Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there. He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” Jesus was…
  • John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

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