So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
Acts 21:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Are you not then [as I supposed] the Egyptian who not long ago stirred up a rebellion and led those 4,000 men who were cutthroats out into the wilderness (desert)? American Standard Version (1901) Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins? Common English Bible Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists into the desert some time ago?” Catholic Public Domain Version So then, are you not that Egyptian who before these days incited a rebellion and led out into the desert four thousand murderous men?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a tumult, and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were murderers? |
So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder during the insurrection.
(This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.