ACTs 28:21 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) “We haven’t received any correspondence here about you,” they answered. “Nor have any of our brothers from Yerushalem arrived here to report any crimes of yours.

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
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 But they said to him, “We have not received letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers, coming, reported or said anything evil about you.

UST Then the Jewish leaders replied, “We have not received any letters from our fellow Jews in Judea about you. And none of our fellow Jews who have come here from Judea have said anything bad about you.

BSB § The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.

BLB Then they said to him, "We received neither letters concerning you from Judea, nor any of the brothers having arrived reported or said anything evil concerning you.

AICNT They replied, “We have received no letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers come here and reported or spoken anything evil about you.

OEB ‘We,’ was their reply, ‘have not had any letter about you from Judea, nor have any of our fellow Jews come and reported or said anything bad about you.

WEBBE They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET They replied, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

LSV And they said to him, “We neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor did anyone who came of the brothers declare or speak any evil concerning you,

FBV “We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and none of our people have come here with reports against you or to speak badly of you,” they told him.

TCNT They said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about yoʋ, and none of the brothers who have come here have reported or spoken anything bad about yoʋ.

T4T Then the Jewish leaders said, “We (exc) have not received any letters from our fellow Jews in Judea about you. Also, none of our fellow Jews who have arrived here from Judea has said anything bad about you.

LEB And they said to him, “We have received no letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers come and[fn] reported or spoken anything evil about you.

28:21 *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come”) has been translated as a finite verb

BBE And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.

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Wymth "For our part," they replied, "we have not received any letters from Judaea about you, nor have any of our countrymen come here and reported or stated anything to your disadvantage.

ASV And they said unto him, We neither received letters from Judæa concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and report or speak any harm of thee.

DRA But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did any of the brethren that came hither, relate or speak any evil of thee.

YLT And they said unto him, 'We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee,

Drby And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.

RV And they said unto him, We neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and report or speak any harm of thee.

Wbstr And they said to him, We have neither received letters from Judea concerning thee, neither have any of the brethren that came shown or spoken any harm of thee.

KJB-1769 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judæa concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
(And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judæa concerning thee/you, neither any of the brethren/brothers that came showed or spake any harm of thee/you. )

KJB-1611 And they saide vnto him, Wee neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came, shewed or spake any harme of thee.
(And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Yudea concerning thee/you, neither any of the brethren/brothers that came, showed or spake any harm of thee/you.)

Bshps And they said vnto him: We neither receaued letters out of Iurie concernyng thee, neither any of the brethren that came, shewed or spake any harme of thee.
(And they said unto him: We neither received letters out of Yury/Yudea concerning thee/you, neither any of the brethren/brothers that came, showed or spake any harm of thee/you.)

Gnva Then they saide vnto him, We neither receiued letters out of Iudea concerning thee, neither came any of the brethren that shewed or spake any euill of thee.
(Then they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Yudea concerning thee/you, neither came any of the brethren/brothers that showed or spake any evil of thee/you. )

Cvdl They sayde vnto hi: We haue nether receaued letter out of Iewry cocernynge the, nether came there eny of the brethre, yt shewed or spake eny harme of ye.
(They said unto him: We have neither received letter out of Yewry cocernynge them, neither came there any of the brethre, it showed or spake any harm of ye.)

TNT And they sayde vnto him: We nether receaved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto the nether came eny of the brethren that shewed or spake eny harme of the.
(And they said unto him: We neither received letters out of Yewry pertaining unto the neither came any of the brethren/brothers that showed or spake any harm of them. )

Wycl And thei seiden to hym, Nether we han resseyued lettris of thee fro Judee, nether ony of britheren comynge schewide, ether spak ony yuel thing of thee.
(And they said to him, Neither we have received lettris of thee/you from Yudee, neither any of brethren/brothers coming showed, ether spake any evil thing of thee/you.)

Luth Sie aber sprachen zu ihm: Wir haben weder Schrift empfangen aus Judäa deinethalben, noch kein Bruder ist kommen, der von dir etwas Arges verkündiget oder gesagt habe.
(They/She but said to him: We have weder Schrift empfangen out_of Yudäa deinethalben, still kein brother is coming, the/of_the from you/to_you etwas Arges verkündiget or said have.)

ClVg At illi dixerunt ad eum: Nos neque litteras accepimus de te a Judæa, neque adveniens aliquis fratrum nuntiavit, aut locutus est quid de te malum.
(At illi dixerunt to him: Nos nor litteras accepimus about you(sg) from Yudæa, nor adveniens aliwho/any brothers nuntiavit, aut spoke it_is quid about you(sg) malum. )

UGNT οἱ δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν εἶπαν, ἡμεῖς οὔτε γράμματα περὶ σοῦ ἐδεξάμεθα ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας, οὔτε παραγενόμενός τις τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀπήγγειλεν ἢ ἐλάλησέν τι περὶ σοῦ πονηρόν.
(hoi de pros auton eipan, haʸmeis oute grammata peri sou edexametha apo taʸs Youdaias, oute paragenomenos tis tōn adelfōn apaʸngeilen aʸ elalaʸsen ti peri sou ponaʸron.)

SBL-GNT οἱ δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν εἶπαν· Ἡμεῖς οὔτε γράμματα περὶ σοῦ ἐδεξάμεθα ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας, οὔτε παραγενόμενός τις τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀπήγγειλεν ἢ ἐλάλησέν τι περὶ σοῦ πονηρόν.
(hoi de pros auton eipan; Haʸmeis oute grammata peri sou edexametha apo taʸs Youdaias, oute paragenomenos tis tōn adelfōn apaʸngeilen aʸ elalaʸsen ti peri sou ponaʸron.)

TC-GNT Οἱ δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν [fn]εἶπον, Ἡμεῖς οὔτε γράμματα περὶ σοῦ ἐδεξάμεθα ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας, οὔτε παραγενόμενός τις τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀπήγγειλεν ἢ ἐλάλησέ τι [fn]περὶ σοῦ πονηρόν.
(Hoi de pros auton eipon, Haʸmeis oute grammata peri sou edexametha apo taʸs Youdaias, oute paragenomenos tis tōn adelfōn apaʸngeilen aʸ elalaʸse ti peri sou ponaʸron. )

28:21 ειπον ¦ ειπαν CT

28:21 περι σου πονηρον ¦ πονηρον περι σου PCK

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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