Acts 23:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

There were more than forty men who made this pact.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

There were more than forty [men of them], who formed this conspiracy [swearing together this oath and curse].

American Standard Version (1901)

And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy.

Common English Bible

More than forty people were involved in the conspiracy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now there were more than forty men who had taken this oath together.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.

Acts 23:13 Cross References

John 16:2

The Jewish authorities will expel you from their synagogues. In fact, the time will come when whoever kills you will think he is doing a service to God.

Acts 23:12

When daylight came, [a group of] Jews conspired together, agreeing under oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:14

They went to the leading priests and [Jewish] elders and told them, “We have bound ourselves under an oath [with serious consequences] to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.