Acts 26:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

New Living Translation
Some Jews arrested me in the Temple for preaching this, and they tried to kill me.

English Standard Version
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Berean Study Bible
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

New American Standard Bible
For these reasons some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to murder me.

NASB 1995
"For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

NASB 1977
“For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

Amplified Bible
Because of this some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Christian Standard Bible
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and were trying to kill me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

Contemporary English Version
That is why some men grabbed me in the temple and tried to kill me.

Good News Translation
It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
For this reason the Jews took me prisoner in the temple courtyard and tried to murder me.

International Standard Version
For this reason the Jewish leaders grabbed me in the Temple and kept trying to kill me.

NET Bible
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

New King James Version
For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

King James 2000 Bible
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

New Heart English Bible
For this reason Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

World English Bible
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

American King James Version
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

American Standard Version
For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

A Faithful Version
On account of these things, the Jews seized me in the temple and attempted to kill me.

Darby Bible Translation
On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

English Revised Version
For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple, & went about to kyll me.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For this cause the Iewes toke me in the temple, and wente aboute to kyll me.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple and went about to kyll me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
because of these things the Jews—having caught me in the temple—were endeavoring to kill [me].

Berean Literal Bible
On account of these things the Jews, having seized me being in the temple, were attempting to kill me.

Young's Literal Translation
because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill me.

Smith's Literal Translation
For these things, me the Jews, having seized in the temple, attempted to kill with their own hands.

Literal Emphasis Translation
On account of these things, the Jews having apprehended me being in the temple, attempted to lay hands on as to kill me.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For this cause the Jews, when I was in the temple, having apprehended me, went about to kill me.

Catholic Public Domain Version
It was for this reason that the Jews, having apprehended me when I was in the temple, attempted to kill me.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And because of these things, the Jews seized me in The Temple and wanted to kill me.”

Lamsa Bible
For these causes the Jews seized me in the temple, and wanted to kill me.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple, and endeavored to kill me.

Godbey New Testament
On account of these things the Jews, taking me while in the temple, endeavored to kill me.

Haweis New Testament
Because of these things, the Jews seizing me in the temple, attempted to kill me on the spot.

Mace New Testament
for such a conduct the Jews seiz'd upon me in the temple, designing to assassinate me;

Weymouth New Testament
"It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.

Worrell New Testament
On account of these things, Jews, seizing me in the temple, were attempting to kill me.

Worsley New Testament
For these things the Jews seized me in the temple, and attempted to kill me.
















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