Acts Chapter 26 verse 21 Holy Bible
For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.
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For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.
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On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.
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For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
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For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
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because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill `me'.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - This cause for these causes, A.V.; seized for caught, A.V.; essayed for went about, A.V. For this cause. Here again is a most telling statement. "I have spent my life in trying to persuade men to repent and turn to God, and for doing so the Jews seek to kill me. Can this be right? Will not you, O King Agrippa, protect me from such an unjust requital?" To kill me; διαχειρίσασθαι, here and in Acts 5:30 only in the New Testament; not in the LXX., but in Polybius, and in Hippocrates and Galen, of surgical operations.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) For these causes . . .--Better, perhaps, on account of these things. With this brief touch, avoiding any elaborate vindication of his own character, St. Paul indicates the real cause of the hostility of the Jews. The one unpardonable sin, in their eyes, was that he taught the Gentiles that they might claim every gift and grace which had once been looked on as the privilege and prerogative of Israel. The historical precedence of the Jew remained (see Notes on Acts 13:46; Romans 3:1-2), but in all essential points they were placed on a footing of equality.
