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New Century Version

Acts 23:25

And he wrote a letter that said:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Caesarea;   Change of Venue;   Claudius Lysius;   Felix;   Letters;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Roman Empire, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Type;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Caesarea;   War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Type;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lysias Claudius;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Ambush;   Letter;   Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Caesarea;   Praetorium;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Letter;   Type;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Claudius;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Epistle;   Type;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He wrote the following letter:
King James Version (1611)
And hee wrote a letter after this manner:
King James Version
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
English Standard Version
And he wrote a letter to this effect:
New American Standard Bible
And he wrote a letter with the following content:
Amplified Bible
And [after instructing the centurions] he wrote a letter to this effect:
Legacy Standard Bible
And he wrote a letter having this form:
Berean Standard Bible
And he wrote the following letter:
Contemporary English Version
The commander wrote a letter that said:
Complete Jewish Bible
And the commander wrote the following letter:
Darby Translation
having written a letter, couched in this form:
Easy-to-Read Version
The commander wrote a letter that said:
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he wrote an epistle in this maner:
George Lamsa Translation
And he wrote a letter after this manner and gave it to them:
Good News Translation
Then the commander wrote a letter that went like this:
Lexham English Bible
He wrote a letter that had this form:
Literal Translation
For he was writing a letter, having this form:
American Standard Version
And he wrote a letter after this form:
Bible in Basic English
And he sent a letter in these words:
Hebrew Names Version
He wrote a letter like this:
International Standard Version
He wrote a letter with this message:
Etheridge Translation
And he wrote a letter, and gave it to them, which was thus:
Murdock Translation
And he wrote a letter and gave them, in which was, thus:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he wrote a letter, after this maner.
English Revised Version
And he wrote a letter after this form:
World English Bible
He wrote a letter like this:
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he wrote a letter after this manner, Claudius Lysias to the most excellent Governor Felix, greeting.
Weymouth's New Testament
He also wrote a letter of which these were the contents:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the tribune dredde, lest the Jewis wolden take hym bi the weie, and sle hym, and aftirward he miyte be chalengid, as he hadde take money.
Update Bible Version
And he wrote a letter after this form:
Webster's Bible Translation
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
New English Translation
He wrote a letter that went like this:
New King James Version
He wrote a letter in the following manner:
New Living Translation
Then he wrote this letter to the governor:
New Life Bible
He wrote a letter which said,
New Revised Standard
He wrote a letter to this effect:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he wrote a letter, after this form: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
(For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner:
Revised Standard Version
And he wrote a letter to this effect:
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and wrote a letter in this maner.
Young's Literal Translation
he having written a letter after this description:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and he wrote a letter on this maner:
Mace New Testament (1729)
at the same time he writ a letter to Felix to this purport.
THE MESSAGE
Then he wrote this letter: From Claudius Lysias, to the Most Honorable Governor Felix: Greetings! I rescued this man from a Jewish mob. They had seized him and were about to kill him when I learned that he was a Roman citizen. So I sent in my soldiers. Wanting to know what he had done wrong, I had him brought before their council. It turned out to be a squabble turned vicious over some of their religious differences, but nothing remotely criminal. The next thing I knew, they had cooked up a plot to murder him. I decided that for his own safety I'd better get him out of here in a hurry. So I'm sending him to you. I'm informing his accusers that he's now under your jurisdiction.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the commander wrote this letter to the governor,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he wrote a letter having this form:

Contextual Overview

12 In the morning some evil people made a plan to kill Paul, and they took an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed him. 13 There were more than forty men who made this plan. 14 They went to the leading priests and the elders and said, "We have taken an oath not to eat or drink until we have killed Paul. 15 So this is what we want you to do: Send a message to the commander to bring Paul out to you as though you want to ask him more questions. We will be waiting to kill him while he is on the way here." 16 But Paul's nephew heard about this plan and went to the army building and told Paul. 17 Then Paul called one of the officers and said, "Take this young man to the commander. He has a message for him." 18 So the officer brought Paul's nephew to the commander and said, "The prisoner, Paul, asked me to bring this young man to you. He wants to tell you something." 19 The commander took the young man's hand and led him to a place where they could be alone. He asked, "What do you want to tell me?" 20 The young man said, "The Jews have decided to ask you to bring Paul down to their council meeting tomorrow. They want you to think they are going to ask him more questions. 21 But don't believe them! More than forty men are hiding and waiting to kill Paul. They have all taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. Now they are waiting for you to agree."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Acts 23:33 - delivered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he wrote a letter after this manner. The chief captain wrote a letter to Felix the governor, the form and sum of which were as follow; this letter he sent by one of the centurions to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 23:25. He wrote a letter after this manner — It appears that this was not only the substance of the letter, but the letter itself: the whole of it is so perfectly formal as to prove this; and in this simple manner are all the letters of the ancients formed. In this also we have an additional proof of St. Luke's accuracy.


 
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