Acts Chapter 16 verse 7 Holy Bible
and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not;
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And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;
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having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;
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After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
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When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
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having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - And when for after, A.V. and T.R.; come over against (κατὰ) for come to, A.V.; and the Spirit of Jesus for but the Spirit, A.V. and T.R. But the phrase, "the Spirit of Jesus," occurs nowhere in the New Testament, and is on that account very improbable here, though there is considerable manuscript authority for it. It is accepted by Meyer and Alford and Wordsworth, following Griesbach, Lachmann, Tischendorf, etc.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) They assayed to go into Bithynia.--The verse describes very vividly the uncertainty produced day by day by this conflict between human plans and divine direction. Bithynia, lying to the north, had, like Pontus, a considerable Jewish population scattered along its shores, and they were inclined to take that as their next field of labour. They were led on, however, as before, westward and not northward. There is no record of any considerable halt in this stage of their journey, and they probably found few favourable openings in a district which, for great part of the way, presented only unimportant villages. The use of the archaic form "assayed" for "essayed," or "attempted," calls for a word of notice. (Comp. Acts 9:26.)The Spirit suffered them not.--The better MSS. and versions give the reading, "the Spirit of Jesus," which is of some dogmatic importance, as confirming the doctrine that the Spirit stands in the same relation to the Son as to the Father, and may therefore be spoken of either as the Spirit of God, or of Christ (Romans 8:9), or of Jesus.
