Acts 25:3 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

³ Asking for a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Asking as a favor that he would have him brought to Jerusalem; [meanwhile] they were planning an ambush to slay him on the way.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Common English Bible

³ they asked as a favor from Festus that he summon Paul to Jerusalem. They were planning to ambush and kill him along the way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ asking for favor against him, so that he would order him to be led to Jerusalem, where they were maintaining an ambush in order to kill him along the way.

Acts 25:3 Cross References

John 16:3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Acts 9:2

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them to Jerusalem as prisoners.

Acts 9:24

but their plot became known to Saul. They started watching the gates both day and night so that they might kill him.

Romans 3:8

And why not say (just as some slanderously claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have often been on journeys, exposed to dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers.