ACTs 24:23 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) He ordered the centurion to keep Paul confined, but under relaxed conditions and allowing any of his friends to bring him anything he needed.

Key: khaki:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT commanding the centurion to guard him and for him to have freedom and to forbid none of his own to minister to him.

UST Then Governor Felix told the officer who was guarding Paul to take Paul back to the prison. But he told him to allow Paul to do things freely in the prison. He also said that if Paul’s friends came to visit him, the officer should allow them to help Paul in any way that they wanted to.

BSB He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.

BLB having commanded the centurion to keep him and to let him have ease and not to forbid his own to minister to him.

AICNT And he ordered the centurion to keep {him}[fn] in custody, but to grant him some freedom and not to prevent any of his own people from serving him.

24:23, him: Some manuscripts read “Paul.”

OEB So he gave orders to the centurion in charge of Paul to keep him in custody, but to relax the regulations, and not to prevent any of his personal friends from attending to his wants.

WEBBE He 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.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

LSV having also given a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.

FBV He ordered the centurion to keep Paul in custody but to allow him some measure of freedom and to let Paul's friends care for him without interference.

TCNT Then he ordered the centurion to keep Paul in custody, but to allow him a certain measure of freedom and not to prevent his own people from attending to his needs [fn]or visiting him.

24:23 or visiting him ¦ — CT

T4T Then he told the officer who was guarding Paul to take Paul back to the prison and make sure that he was guarded all the time. But he said that Paul was not to be chained {that the officer was not to fasten chains on him}, and if his friends came to visit him, the officer should allow them to help Paul in any way that they wished.

LEB He ordered[fn] the centurion for him to be guarded and to have some freedom, and in no way to prevent any of his own people[fn] from serving him.

24:23 *Here this participle (“ordered”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style

24:23 This could refer to either friends or relatives

BBE And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.

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Wymth And he gave orders to the Captain that Paul was to be kept in custody, but be treated with indulgence, and that his personal friends were not to be prevented from showing him kindness.

ASV And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his friends to minister unto him.

DRA And he commanded a centurion to keep him, and that he should be easy, and that he should not prohibit any of his friends to minister unto him.

YLT having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.

Drby ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.

RV And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his friends to minister unto him.

Wbstr And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister, or come to him.

KJB-1769 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

KJB-1611 And he commanded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and to let him haue libertie, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister, or come vnto him.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps And he commaunded an vnder captayne to kepe Paul, and to let hym haue rest, and that he shoulde forbyd none of his acquayntaunce to minister vnto hym, or to come vnto hym.
(And he commanded an under captain to keep Paul, and to let him have rest, and that he should forbyd none of his acquayntaunce to minister unto him, or to come unto him.)

Gnva Then hee commanded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and that he should haue ease, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister vnto him, or to come vnto him.
(Then he commanded a Centurion to keep Paul, and that he should have ease, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister unto him, or to come unto him. )

Cvdl But he commaunded the vndercaptayne to kepe Paul, and to let him haue rest, and that he shulde forbydde none of his acquauntauce to mynister vnto him, or to come vnto him.
(But he commanded the undercaptayne to keep Paul, and to let him have rest, and that he should forbydde none of his acquauntauce to minister unto him, or to come unto him.)

TNT And he commaunded an vndercaptayne to kepe Paul and that he shuld have rest and that he shuld forbyd none of his aquayntauce to minister vnto him or to come vnto him.
(And he commanded an undercaptayne to keep Paul and that he should have rest and that he should forbyd none of his aquayntauce to minister unto him or to come unto him. )

Wycl And he comaundide to a centurien to kepe hym, and that he hadde reste, nethir to forbede ony man to mynystre of his owne thingis to him.
(And he commanded to a centurion to keep him, and that he had reste, neither to forbede any man to minister of his own things to him.)

Luth Er befahl aber dem Unterhauptmann, Paulus zu behalten und lassen Ruhe haben, und niemand von den Seinen wehren, ihm zu dienen oder zu ihm zu kommen.
(He befahl but to_him Unterhauptmann, Paulus to keep and lassen rest have, and no_one from the Seinen wehren, him to dienen or to him to come.)

ClVg Jussitque centurioni custodire eum, et habere requiem, nec quemquam de suis prohibere ministrare ei.[fn]
(Yussitque centurioni custodire him, and habere requiem, but_not quemquam about to_his_own prohibere ministrare to_him. )

24.23 De suis ministrare. ID. Discipulis et sociis; aliter, jussit non prohibere quemquam ministrare ei de suis rebus vel facultatibus.

24.23 De to_his_own ministrare. ID. Discipulis and sociis; aliter, yussit not/no prohibere quemquam ministrare to_him about to_his_own rebus or resources.

UGNT διαταξάμενος τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῃ τηρεῖσθαι αὐτὸν, ἔχειν τε ἄνεσιν, καὶ μηδένα κωλύειν τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ ὑπηρετεῖν αὐτῷ.
(diataxamenos tōi hekatontarⱪaʸ taʸreisthai auton, eⱪein te anesin, kai maʸdena kōluein tōn idiōn autou hupaʸretein autōi.)

SBL-GNT ⸀διαταξάμενος τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῃ τηρεῖσθαι ⸀αὐτὸν ἔχειν τε ἄνεσιν καὶ μηδένα κωλύειν τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ ⸀ὑπηρετεῖν αὐτῷ.
(⸀diataxamenos tōi hekatontarⱪaʸ taʸreisthai ⸀auton eⱪein te anesin kai maʸdena kōluein tōn idiōn autou ⸀hupaʸretein autōi.)

TC-GNT διαταξάμενός [fn]τε τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῃ τηρεῖσθαι [fn]τὸν Παῦλον, ἔχειν τε ἄνεσιν, καὶ μηδένα κωλύειν τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ ὑπηρετεῖν [fn]ἢ προσέρχεσθαι αὐτῷ.
(diataxamenos te tōi hekatontarⱪaʸ taʸreisthai ton Paulon, eⱪein te anesin, kai maʸdena kōluein tōn idiōn autou hupaʸretein aʸ proserⱪesthai autōi. )

24:23 τε ¦ — CT

24:23 τον παυλον ¦ αυτον CT

24:23 η προσερχεσθαι ¦ — CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

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Paul Is Imprisoned for the Gospel

As the book of Acts attests, Paul was no stranger to imprisonment, and he catalogued his incarcerations among his many credentials of suffering that affirmed his legitimacy as an apostle to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 6:4-5). The first mention of Paul being imprisoned is when he and Silas were arrested in Philippi after exorcising a spirit of divination from a slave girl (Acts 16). Paul’s actions angered the girl’s owners, since the men were no longer able to make money off of the girl’s fortune telling abilities. Later in his letter to the Corinthians, Paul notes that he had already suffered multiple imprisonments (2 Corinthians 11:23), making it clear that not all of Paul’s imprisonments and other sufferings were recorded in Scripture. The next imprisonment explicitly mentioned in Scripture is when Paul was arrested in the Temple in Jerusalem at the end of his third missionary journey (Acts 21:27-34). Soon after this Paul was sent to Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast, where he remained in prison for two years (Acts 23-26; see “Paul Is Transferred to Caesarea” map). This may be where Paul penned the letters commonly known as the Prison Epistles (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon). At the end of this time Paul appealed his case to Caesar and was sent to Rome, where he spent another two years under house arrest awaiting his trial before Caesar (Acts 28:16-31). If Paul did not write his Prison Epistles while he was at Caesarea, then it is likely that he wrote them from Rome during this time. The next time we hear of Paul being imprisoned is likely several years later in his second letter to Timothy (2 Timothy 1:8-17; 2:9; 4:9-21). Though it is not certain, the tone of Paul’s writing during this time of imprisonment, which seems markedly more somber than the optimistic outlook he seems to have about his incarceration during the writing of the Prison Epistles (e.g., Philippians 1:21-26; Philemon 1:22), suggests that this incarceration was not the same as his house arrest. If so, then it is possible that between his first and second incarcerations in Rome Paul fulfilled his intention to travel to Spain to continue spreading the gospel (Romans 15:22-28). Just prior to his second incarceration in Rome, Paul had informed Titus that he planned to spend the winter in Nicopolis northwest of Achaia and asked him to meet him there (Titus 3:12). Perhaps it was around this time or soon after that he was arrested once again and brought to Rome. Paul’s ultimate fate is not noted in Scripture, but tradition (Clement, Dionysius, Eusebius, and Tertullian) attests that this final imprisonment of Paul took place at what is now called Mamertine Prison. During Paul’s time this was the only prison in Rome and was called simply “the Prison,” and it was not typically used for long term incarceration but rather for holding those awaiting imminent execution. There, during the reign of Nero, Paul met his earthly death by the sword and was received into eternal life by his loving Savior, whom he had served so long.

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Paul Is Imprisoned for the Gospel