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Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
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ULTBecause of these things, the Jews, having seized me in the temple, were trying to kill me.
USTIt is because I preached this message that some Jews seized me when I was in the temple courtyard and tried to kill me.
BSBFor this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts [fn] and tried to kill me.
Wymth"It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.
ASVFor this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.
DRAFor this cause the Jews, when I was in the temple, having apprehended me, went about to kill me.
YLTbecause of these things the Jews — having caught me in the temple — were endeavouring to kill [me].
DrbyOn account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.
RVFor this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.
WbstrFor these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me .
KJB-1769For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
KJB-1611For these causes the Iewes caught mee in the Temple, and went about to kill me. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)
BshpsFor this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple, & went about to kyll me. (For this cause the Yews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.)
GnvaFor this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me. (For this cause the Yews caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me. )
CvdlFor this cause the Iewes toke me in the temple, and wente aboute to kyll me. (For this cause the Yews took me in the temple, and went about to kill me.)
TNTFor this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple and went about to kyll me. (For this cause the Yews caught me in the temple and went about to kill me. )
WyclFor this cause Jewis token me, whanne Y was in the temple, to sle me. (For this cause Yews token me, when I was in the temple, to slay/kill me.)
LuthUm deswillen haben mich die Juden im Tempel gegriffen und unterstanden, mich zu töten. (Um deswillen have me the Yuden in_the Tempel gegriffen and unterstanden, me to kill.)
ClVgHac ex causa me Judæi, cum essem in templo, comprehensum tentabant interficere. (Hac from causa me Yudæi, when/with essem in temple, comprehensum tentabant interficere. )
UGNTἕνεκα τούτων, με Ἰουδαῖοι συλλαβόμενοι ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, ἐπειρῶντο διαχειρίσασθαι. (heneka toutōn, me Youdaioi sullabomenoi en tōi hierōi, epeirōnto diaⱪeirisasthai.)
26:1-23 In his eloquent defense before King Agrippa, Paul argued that his preaching was completely consistent with the Jewish faith. The defense begins with a courteous acknowledgement of Agrippa’s competence to hear the evidence (26:2-3), outlines the nature of Paul’s background, Jewish training, and membership in the Pharisees (26:4-5), and explains that the charges against him are merely for believing the fulfillment of Jewish hopes for the resurrection (26:6-8). Paul then tells the story of his conversion from strong opponent of Christianity (26:9-11) through a vision on the way to Damascus (26:12-18; see 9:1-18). His preaching was nothing more than obeying this divine vision (26:19-20). Even though he encountered violent opposition from his fellow Jews (26:21), God protected him as he taught a message that the Jews should have embraced (26:22-23). This defense is a model for Christians put on trial for their faith (see 9:15; Luke 21:12-15).
Paul is using the name of a whole group, the Jews, to refer to some members of that group. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the Jews who opposed me]
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.
