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the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Acts 19:7

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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.
Good News Translation
They were about twelve men in all.
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

1Now, it happened that while Apollos was away in Corinth, Paul made his way down through the mountains, came to Ephesus, and happened on some disciples there. The first thing he said was, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart? Did he get inside you?" "We've never even heard of that—a Holy Spirit? God within us?" 3 "How were you baptized, then?" asked Paul. "In John's baptism." 4 "That explains it," said Paul. "John preached a baptism of radical life-change so that people would be ready to receive the One coming after him, who turned out to be Jesus. If you've been baptized in John's baptism, you're ready now for the real thing, for Jesus." 5And they were. As soon as they heard of it, they were baptized in the name of the Master Jesus. Paul put his hands on their heads and the Holy Spirit entered them. From that moment on, they were praising God in tongues and talking about God's actions. Altogether there were about twelve people there that day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Acts 13:12 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed men from all over the city of Sodom, young and old, descended on the house from all sides and boxed them in. They yelled to Lot, "Where are the men who are staying with you for the night? Bring them out so we can have our sport with them!"
Genesis 19:9
They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you're going to tell us how to run our lives. We'll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was high in the sky when Lot arrived at Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.
Leviticus 18:22
"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
Leviticus 20:13
"If a man has sex with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is abhorrent. They must be put to death; they are responsible for their own deaths.
Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute. And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of God, your God, to pay for any vow—they are both an abomination to God , your God.
Judges 19:23
He went out and told them, "No, brothers! Don't be obscene—this man is my guest. Don't commit this outrage. Look, my virgin daughter and his concubine are here. I'll bring them out for you. Abuse them if you must, but don't do anything so senselessly vile to this man."
Romans 1:24
So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

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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