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Acts 21:40

The Passion Translation

When the commander gave his permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured with his hands for the people to listen. When the crowd quieted down, Paul addressed them in Aramaic and said:

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So when Pilate heard this threat, he relented and had Jesus, who was torn and bleeding, brought outside. Then he went up the elevated stone platform and took his seat on the judgment bench—which in Aramaic is called Gabbatha, or “The Bench.”

Jesus carried his own cross out of the city to the place called “The Skull,” which in Aramaic is Golgotha.

Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called in Aramaic, The House of Loving Kindness, surrounded by five covered porches.

Everyone in Jerusalem knows what happened to him. That’s why the field where he died is called in Aramaic ‘Haqel Dama,’ that is, ‘The Bloody Field.’

He signaled for them to be quiet as he shared with them the miraculous way the Lord brought him out of prison. Before he left he said, “Make sure you let Jacob and all of the other believers know what has happened.”

Paul stood and motioned that he had something to say. He said, “Listen, all of you Jews and non-Jews who worship God.

Some of the Jews pushed forward a Jewish man named Alexander to be their spokesman, and different factions of the crowd shouted instructions at him. He stood before the people and motioned for everyone to be quiet so he could be heard.

When they reached the steps leading up to the fortress, they had to protect Paul and carry him up because of the violent mob following them,

(Now, when everyone realized he was speaking to them in their Judean Aramaic language, the crowd became all the more attentive.)

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic, saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are only hurting yourself when you resist your calling.’

During those days the number of Jesus’ followers kept multiplying greatly. But a complaint was brought against those who spoke Aramaic by the Greek-speaking Jews, who felt their widows were being overlooked during the daily distribution of food.

The demonic spirits assembled the kings together at the place called in Hebrew the “Mount of the Governor.”

The angel of the bottomless pit was king over them, and his name in Hebrew is Destruction and in Greek Destroyer.




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