Acts 23:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"

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  • Neh 2:4 : 4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
  • Esth 5:3 : 3 Then said the king to her, What will you, queen Esther? and what is your request? it shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.
  • Esth 7:2 : 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
  • Esth 9:12 : 12 The king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
  • Jer 31:32 : 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
  • Mark 8:23 : 23 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
  • Mark 9:27 : 27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
  • Mark 10:51 : 51 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again."

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  • Acts 23:15-18
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    15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

    16But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

    17Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."

    18So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."

  • Acts 23:20-23
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    80%

    20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

    21Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

    22So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."

    23He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night{about 9:00 PM}."

  • Acts 21:31-34
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    31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

    32Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

    34Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

  • Acts 22:24-27
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    77%

    24the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

    25When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"

    26When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"

    27The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."

  • Acts 21:37
    77%

    37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?

  • Acts 24:7-8
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    7{TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}

    8{TR adds "commanding his accusers to come to you."}By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    76%

    29Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

    30But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    76%

    10When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

    11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

  • Acts 23:27-31
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    75%

    27"This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

    28Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

    29I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

    30When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

    31So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

  • Acts 25:15
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    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • Acts 28:16-17
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    74%

    16When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

    17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

  • Acts 25:2
    74%

    2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

  • Acts 24:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."

    23He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

  • Acts 17:19
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    19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

  • Acts 25:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

    21But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar."

  • Acts 25:23
    71%

    23So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

  • Acts 21:40
    71%

    40When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

  • Acts 23:33-34
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    33When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

    34When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

  • Acts 25:6
    71%

    6When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

  • Acts 25:17
    71%

    17When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.

  • Acts 26:30-31
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    30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

    31When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."

  • Acts 16:36-37
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    70%

    36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

    37But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 19:31
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    31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

  • Acts 21:29
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    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.