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AICNT especially since you are familiar with all the customs and controversies among the Jews. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.
OEB especially as you are so well-versed in all the customs and questions of the Jewish world. I beg you therefore to give me a patient hearing.
WEBBE especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are amongst the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
WMBB especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are amongst Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
NET because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.
LSV especially knowing you to be acquainted with all things—both customs and questions—among Jews; for this reason, I implore you to hear me patiently.
FBV particularly because you are an expert in all Jewish issues and customs. I beg your patient indulgence as you listen to what I have to say.
TCNT especially since [fn]yoʋ are acquainted with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg yoʋ to listen to me patiently.
T4T I am really fortunate, because you (sg) know all about the customs of us Jews and the questions that we (exc) argue about. So I ask you, please listen patiently to what I say.”
LEB because[fn] you are especially acquainted with both all the customs and controversial questions with respect to the Jews. Therefore I beg you[fn] to listen to me with patience.
BBE The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
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Wymth who are so familiar with all the customs and speculations that prevail among the Jews; and for this reason, I pray you, give me a patient hearing.
ASV especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
DRA Especially as thou knowest all, both customs and questions that are among the Jews: Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
YLT especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things — both customs and questions — among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.
Drby especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
RV especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Wbstr Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
KJB-1769 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
(Especially because I know thee/you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech/implore thee/you to hear me patiently. )
KJB-1611 Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customes and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee to heare mee patiently.
(Especially, because I know thee/you to be expert in all customes and questions which are among the Yewes: wherefore I beseech/implore thee/you to hear me patiently.)
Bshps Namely, because thou art expert in all customes and questions, whiche are among the Iewes: Wherefore I beseche thee to heare me patiently.
(Namely, because thou/you art expert in all customes and questions, which are among the Yewes: Wherefore I beseche thee/you to hear me patiently.)
Gnva Chiefly, because thou hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee, to heare me patiently.
(Chiefly, because thou/you hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Yewes: wherefore I beseech/implore thee/you, to hear me patiently. )
Cvdl specially for so moch as thou art experte in all customes and questions, which are amonge the Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the, to heare me paciently.
(specially for so much as thou/you art experte in all customes and questions, which are among the Yewes. Wherefore I beseche them, to hear me patiently.)
TNT namely because thou arte experte in all customes and questions which are amonge the Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the to heare me paciently.
(namely because thou/you art experte in all customes and questions which are among the Yewes. Wherefore I beseche the to hear me patiently. )
Wycl moost for thou knowist alle thingis that ben among Jewis, customes and questiouns. For which thing, Y biseche, here me pacientli.
(moost for thou/you knowest/know all things that been among Yewis, customes and questions. For which thing, I beseech/implore, here me patientli.)
Luth allermeist weil du weißt alle Sitten und Fragen der Juden. Darum bitte ich dich du wollest mich geduldiglich hören.
(allermeist because you weißt all Sitten and Fragen the/of_the Yuden. Therefore bitte I you/yourself you want me geduldiglich listenn.)
ClVg maxime te sciente omnia, et quæ apud Judæos sunt consuetudines et quæstiones: propter quod obsecro patienter me audias.
(maxime you(sg) sciente everything, and which apud Yudæos are consuetudines and quæstiones: propter that obsecro patienter me audias. )
UGNT μάλιστα γνώστην ὄντα σε πάντων τῶν κατὰ Ἰουδαίους, ἐθῶν τε καὶ ζητημάτων; διὸ δέομαι μακροθύμως ἀκοῦσαί μου.
(malista gnōstaʸn onta se pantōn tōn kata Youdaious, ethōn te kai zaʸtaʸmatōn; dio deomai makrothumōs akousai mou.)
SBL-GNT μάλιστα γνώστην ὄντα σε πάντων τῶν κατὰ Ἰουδαίους ⸀ἐθῶν τε καὶ ζητημάτων· διὸ ⸀δέομαι μακροθύμως ἀκοῦσαί μου.
(malista gnōstaʸn onta se pantōn tōn kata Youdaious ⸀ethōn te kai zaʸtaʸmatōn; dio ⸀deomai makrothumōs akousai mou.)
TC-GNT μάλιστα γνώστην ὄντα [fn]σε πάντων τῶν κατὰ Ἰουδαίους [fn]ἠθῶν τε καὶ ζητημάτων· διὸ δέομαί [fn]σου, μακροθύμως ἀκοῦσαί μου.
(malista gnōstaʸn onta se pantōn tōn kata Youdaious aʸthōn te kai zaʸtaʸmatōn; dio deomai sou, makrothumōs akousai mou. )
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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.