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\subsection{Acts 23}
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\VS{1} So Paul having looked intently to the council said: Men, brothers, I in all
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good conscience have led my life in\footnote{or ``for'', ``by''} God until
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this day.
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\VS{2} But the chief priest Ananias ordered those standing around
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to be striking his mouth.
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\VS{3} Then Paul said: God is [about] to be striking you,
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[O] white-washed wall, for you would sit judging me according to the law, and
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breaking the law you order me to be being struck?
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\VS{4} So those standing
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by said: You revile the chief-priest of God?
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\VS{5} And Paul said: I did not
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know, brothers, that he is chief-priest, for it is written\footnote{Ex.22:28}:
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\begin{verse}
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You will not speak evil-ly of the ruler [of your] people.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{6} Now Paul having known that the one part is Sadducees and the other
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Pharisees he was crying out in the council: Men, brothers, I am [a] Pharisee,
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son of Pharisees. Concerning [the] hope and resurrection of the dead am I judged.
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\VS{7} Now while he was saying this, strife came to pass [between] the Pharisees and
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the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
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\VS{8} For the Sadduccees say
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there is no resurrection nor angel nor spirit, but the Pharisees profess
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these [things].
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\VS{9} So [a] great clamor came to pass, and having arisen, some of the
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scribes of the part of the Pharisees contended sharply saying: We find
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nothing evil in this man. Perhaps [a] spirit spoke to him or [an] angel.
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\VS{10} Now
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great strife having come to pass, the commander being afraid lest Paul be
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torn apart by them, he ordered the army having gone down to seize him from
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their midst and to be bringing [him] to the military base.
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\VS{11} Now on the
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next night the Lord having stood before him said: Be taking courage, for as
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I testified the [things] concerning me to Jerusalem, thus must you also witness to
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Rome.
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\VS{12} Now when day came to pass, the Jews, having made [a] plot, cursed
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themselves, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they kill Paul.
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\VS{13} Now
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these having made the conspiracy were more than forty,
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\VS{14} who having
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gone to the chief priests and the elders said: We have cursed ourselves with
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[a] curse, to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
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\VS{15} Now therefore you
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inform the commander with the council that he bring him down to us as
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intending to be determining carefully\footnote{or ``accurately''} the
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[facts] concerning him. But we before he draws nigh are prepared to do away with
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him.
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\VS{16} Now the son of Paul's sister having heard [of] the ambush, having
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arrived and having gone in to the military base, he reported [it] to Paul.
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\VS{17} So Paul having called upon one of the centurions said: Be bringing
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this youth to the commander, for he has something to be reporting to him.
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\VS{18} Indeed therefore having taken him, he brought [him] to the commander and
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said: The prisoner Paul, having called upon me, asked\fnErotao{} [me] to be bringing this
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youth to you, having something to speak to you.
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\VS{19} So having laid his
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hand upon him the commander also having withdrawn privately inquired: What
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is it you have to be reporting to me?
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\VS{20} So he said that: The Jews have
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agreed to ask\fnErotao{} you that tomorrow you bring down Paul to the council as
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intending to be inquiring carefully concerning him.
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\VS{21} You therefore
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should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men from them will
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ambush him, who have cursed themselves neither to eat nor drink until they
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do away with him, and now they are prepared, expecting from you the promise.
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\VS{22} Indeed therefore the commander dismissed the youth, having commanded
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[him] to: Speak to no one that you have informed me of these [things].
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\VS{23} And having
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summoned a certain two of the centurions, he said: Prepare two hundred
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soldiers in order that they go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two
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hundred bowmen\footnote{or ``slingers''}, from the third hour of the night,
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\VS{24} and to present [a] packhorse, in order that having placed Paul upon it
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they save him to Felix the ruler,
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\VS{25} Having written [a] letter having this
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content:
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\VS{26} Claudios Lucias to the noblest ruler Felix --- greetings.
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\VS{27}
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This man, having been arrested by the Jews and [about] to be done away with by
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them, having drawn near with [my] army I delivered [him], having learned that he is
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Roman.
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\VS{28} And intending to know the reason for which they were accusing
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him, I brought him down to the council,
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\VS{29} whom I found they were
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accusing concerning questions of their [religious] law, and having no accusation worthy
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of death or bonds.
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\VS{30} So when [a] plot was revealed to me to be against
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[this] man, at once I sent [him] to you, having also directed the accusers to be
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speaking with him before you.
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\VS{31} Indeed therefore the soldiers according to the [orders] commanded to them,
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having taken Paul, they brought [him] through the night to Antipatrida.
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\VS{32}
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Now on the morrow having permitted the horsemen to be going forth with him,
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they returned to the base,
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\VS{33} who having gone in to Caesarea and having
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delivered the letter to the ruler, they also presented Paul to him.
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\VS{34}
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So having read [it] and having asked from which province he is, and having
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inquired that he is from Kilikia:
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\VS{35} I will give you [a] hearing, he said,
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when your accusers are also present; having ordered him to be guarded in the
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Praetorium of Herod.
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