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Acts 21:40

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in Aramaic:  ,

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Motioning to them with his hand  to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. ‘Tell these things to James  and the brothers,’ he said, and he left and went to another place.


We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic,  “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”


When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic,  they became even quieter.


By the Sheep Gate  in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda  in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.


When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,


Some Jews in the crowd gave instructions to Alexander  after they pushed him to the front. Motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defence to the people.


So they assembled the kings at the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.  ,


They had as their king  the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,  , and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.


Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said, ‘Fellow Israelites, and you who fear God, listen!


In those days, as the disciples  were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.


Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,  and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.


Carrying  the cross by himself,  he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.


When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Aramaic,  Gabbatha).


An inscription was above him:  This Is the King of the Jews.


Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps.  , They blew the ram’s horn  and proclaimed, ‘Jehu is king! ’


This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field is called Hakeldama (that is, ‘Field of Blood’).





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