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Good News Translation

Acts 19:7

They were about twelve men in all.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Holy Spirit;   Power;   Spirit;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Asia;   Baptism with the spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - John the Baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Relics;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baptism, John's;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Baptism;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bible;   Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Jude, Epistle of;   Regeneration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Nation;   Sacraments;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ephesians;   Ephesus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine);   John the Baptist;   Keys, Power of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now there were about twelve men in all.
King James Version (1611)
And all ye men were about twelue.
King James Version
And all the men were about twelve.
English Standard Version
There were about twelve men in all.
New American Standard Bible
There were about twelve men in all.
New Century Version
There were about twelve people in this group.
Amplified Bible
There were about twelve men in all.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now there were in all about twelve men.
Berean Standard Bible
There were about twelve men in all.
Contemporary English Version
There were about twelve men in this group.
Complete Jewish Bible
In all, there were about twelve of these men.
Darby Translation
And all the men were about twelve.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were about twelve men in this group.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the men were about twelue.
George Lamsa Translation
And there were in all twelve persons.
Lexham English Bible
(Now the total number of men was about twelve.)
Literal Translation
And all the men were about twelve.
American Standard Version
And they were in all about twelve men.
Bible in Basic English
And there were about twelve of these men.
Hebrew Names Version
They were about twelve men in all.
International Standard Version
There were about twelve men in all.
Etheridge Translation
But all the men were twelve.
Murdock Translation
And all the persons were twelve.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the men were about twelue.
English Revised Version
And they were in all about twelve men.
World English Bible
They were about twelve men in all.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they were in all about twelve men. And going into the synagogue,
Weymouth's New Testament
They numbered in all about twelve men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle weren almest twelue men.
Update Bible Version
And they were in all about twelve men.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the men were about twelve.
New English Translation
(Now there were about twelve men in all.)
New King James Version
Now the men were about twelve in all.
New Living Translation
There were about twelve men in all.
New Life Bible
There were about twelve men.
New Revised Standard
altogether there were about twelve of them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And all the men were about twelve.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the men were about twelve.
Revised Standard Version
There were about twelve of them in all.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and all the men were aboute .xii.
Young's Literal Translation
and all the men were, as it were, twelve.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all the men were aboute twolue.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the number of them being about twelve.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There were around twelve cowboys who saddled up for the Lord that day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
There were in all about twelve men.

Contextual Overview

1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior of the province and arrived in Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?" "We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit," they answered. 3 "Well, then, what kind of baptism did you receive?" Paul asked. "The baptism of John," they answered. 4 Paul said, "The baptism of John was for those who turned from their sins; and he told the people of Israel to believe in the one who was coming after him—that is, in Jesus." 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 Paul placed his hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came upon them; they spoke in strange tongues and also proclaimed God's message. 7 They were about twelve men in all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Acts 13:12 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before the guests went to bed, the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the city, both young and old, were there.
Genesis 19:9
But they said, "Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot back and moved up to break down the door.
Genesis 19:11
Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Leviticus 18:22
No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Deuteronomy 23:17
"No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.
Judges 19:23
But the old man went outside and said to them, "No, my friends! Please! Don't do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.
Acts 17:26
From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the men were about twelve. The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, have not the word "about"; but affirm, that the men were twelve; and indeed the number being so small, the historian might be at a certainty about it: these seem to be the first materials of a Gospel church at Ephesus, which afterwards was very large and flourishing, and very likely were some of the elders of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And all the men - The whole number.


 
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