Acts 12:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered `him' to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

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  • Luke 21:12 : 12 and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 Many `are' the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;
  • Matt 26:5 : 5 and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'
  • Matt 27:64-66 : 64 command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.' 65 And Pilate said to them, `Ye have a watch, go away, make secure -- as ye have known;' 66 and they, having gone, did make the sepulchre secure, having sealed the stone, together with the watch.
  • Esth 3:6-7 : 6 and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who `are' in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai. 7 In the first month -- it `is' the month of Nisan -- in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur (that `is' the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, `to' the twelfth, it `is' the month of Adar.
  • Esth 3:13 : 13 and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month -- it `is' the month of Adar -- and their spoil to seize,
  • Acts 16:23-24 : 23 many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, 24 who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'
  • John 13:36-38 : 36 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.' 37 Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;' 38 Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.'
  • John 19:23 : 23 The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout,
  • John 21:18 : 18 verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry `thee' whither thou dost not will;'
  • Acts 4:3 : 3 and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

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