The Escape from Damascus
Acts 9:25
In 9 translations
- BSB
- One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.Literally through the wall; see 2 Corinthians 11:33.
- KJV
- Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
- WEB
- but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
- ASV
- but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
- LSV
- and the disciples having taken him, by night let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.
- YLT
- and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.
- DBY
- but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
- DRC
- But the disciples taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.
- GNV
- Then the disciples tooke him by night, and put him through the wall, and let him downe by a rope in a basket.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include αὐτοῦ (“of him”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (3)
- Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place καθῆκαν elsewhere in this verse.
- Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place αὐτὸν elsewhere in this verse.
- Spelling of σπυρίδι.¶: Westcott–Hort: σφυρίδι.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
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- SBLGNT: οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ; Robinson–Pierpont read αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ.
- SBLGNT: διὰ τοῦ τείχους καθῆκαν αὐτὸν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read διὰ τοῦ τείχους καθῆκαν αὐτὸν; Robinson–Pierpont read καθῆκαν διὰ τοῦ τείχους.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- λαβόντες δὲ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ νυκτὸς διὰ τοῦ τείχους καθῆκαν αὐτὸν χαλάσαντες ἐν σπυρίδι.
- RP2018
- λαβόντες δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ νυκτός, καθῆκαν διὰ τοῦ τείχους, χαλάσαντες ἐν σπυρίδι.
- TR-Boyd
- λαβόντες δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ νυκτός, καθῆκαν διὰ τοῦ τείχους, χαλάσαντες ἐν σπυρίδι.
- SCR1894
- λαβοντες δε αυτον οι μαθηται νυκτος καθηκαν δια του τειχους χαλασαντες εν σπυριδι
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Cross-references most cited first
- Joshua 2:15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- 2 Corinthians 11:33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
- 1 Samuel 19:11–12Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!” So Michal lowered David…
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