Acts 23:13
New International Version
More than forty men were involved in this plot.

New Living Translation
There were more than forty of them in the conspiracy.

English Standard Version
There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.

Berean Standard Bible
More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

Berean Literal Bible
Now there were more than forty having made this conspiracy,

King James Bible
And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

New King James Version
Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.

New American Standard Bible
There were more than forty who formed this plot.

NASB 1995
There were more than forty who formed this plot.

NASB 1977
And there were more than forty who formed this plot.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there were more than forty who formed this scheme.

Amplified Bible
There were more than forty [men] who formed this plot [and swore this oath].

Christian Standard Bible
There were more than forty who had formed this plot.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There were more than 40 who had formed this plot.

American Standard Version
And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But those who established this covenant with an oath were more than forty men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.

English Revised Version
And they were more than forty which made this conspiracy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
More than forty men took part in this plot.

Good News Translation
There were more than forty who planned this together.

International Standard Version
More than 40 men formed this conspiracy.

Literal Standard Version
and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

Majority Standard Bible
More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

New American Bible
There were more than forty who formed this conspiracy.

NET Bible
There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

New Revised Standard Version
There were more than forty who joined in this conspiracy.

New Heart English Bible
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they were more than forty who had made this conspiracy.

Weymouth New Testament
There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath.

World English Bible
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

Young's Literal Translation
and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

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Context
The Plot to Kill Paul
12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. 13 More than forty of them were involved in this plot. 14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.…

Cross References
Acts 23:12
When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:14
They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.


Treasury of Scripture

And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

which.

2 Samuel 15:12,31
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counseller, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom…

John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

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Acts 23
1. As Paul pleads his cause,
2. Ananias commands them to strike him.
7. Dissension among his accusers.
11. God encourages him.
14. The Jews' vow to kill Paul,
20. is declared unto the chief captain.
27. He sends him to Felix the governor.














Verse 13. - Made for had made, A.V. Conspiracy; συνωμοσία, in Latin conjuratio. It only occurs here in the New Testament, but is used occasionally by Diodorus Siculus and other Greek writers. The kindred word συνωμότης is found in the LXX. of Genesis 14:13, rendered "confederate," A.V.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
More than
πλείους (pleious)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural - Comparative
Strong's 4119: Or neuter pleion, or pleon comparative of polus; more in quantity, number, or quality; also the major portion.

forty [of them]
τεσσεράκοντα (tesserakonta)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 5062: Forty. The decade of tessares; forty.

were
ἦσαν (ēsan)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

involved
ποιησάμενοι (poiēsamenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

in this
ταύτην (tautēn)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

plot.
συνωμοσίαν (synōmosian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4945: A conspiracy, plot. From a compound of sun and omnuo; a swearing together, i.e. a plot.


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