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Acts Chapter 27 verse 42 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 27:42

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any `of them' should swim out, and escape.
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BBE Acts 27:42

Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.
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DARBY Acts 27:42

And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
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KJV Acts 27:42

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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WBT Acts 27:42

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WEB Acts 27:42

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
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YLT Acts 27:42

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 42. - The soldiers' counsel, etc. The same stern sense of duty in the Roman soldier as moved the keeper of the jail at Philippi to destroy himself when he thought his prisoners had escaped (Acts 16:27). The prisoners; by which we learn, as also in ver. 1, that there were other prisoners beside Paul going to be tried before Caesar at Rome (comp. Josephus's account ('Life,' sect. 3) of certain priests, friends of his, who were sent as prisoners to Rome, to be tried). Swim out; ἐκκολυμβάω, only here, but not uncommon in the same sense in classical Greek (see next verse). Escape; διαφύγοι, peculiar to St. Luke here, but it is the common medical word for a narrow escape from Illness.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(42) And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners.--The vigour of Roman law, which inflicted capital punishment on those who were in charge of prisoners and suffered them to escape (see Notes on Acts 12:19; Acts 16:27), must be remembered, as explaining the apparently wanton cruelty of the proposal. In putting the prisoners to death the soldiers saw the only chance of escaping death themselves.