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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 23:15 Catholic Bible: Now then, you and the Council send word to the Roman commander to bring Paul down to you, pretending that you want to get more accurate information about him. But we will be ready to kill him before he ever gets here." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/acts/23-15.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/acts/23-15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/acts/23-15.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/acts/1.htm">Acts</a> > <a href="/gntd/acts/23.htm">Chapter 23</a> > Verse 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/23-14.htm" title="Acts 23:14">◄</a> Acts 23:15 <a href="../acts/23-16.htm" title="Acts 23:16">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/acts/23.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/acts/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Now then, you and the Council send word to the Roman commander to bring Paul down to you, pretending that you want to get more accurate information about him. But we will be ready to kill him before he ever gets here." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/acts/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/acts/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You and everyone in the council must go to the commander and pretend that you want to find out more about the charges against Paul. Ask for him to be brought before your court. Meanwhile, we will be waiting to kill him before he gets there." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/acts/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You, together with the Sanhedrin, must now make an official request to the commander to have him bring him down to you, as though you meant to investigate his case more thoroughly. We on our part are prepared to kill him before he arrives.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/acts/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.</p><p class="hdg">that he.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/25-3.htm">Acts 25:3</a> Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/21-11.htm">Psalm 21:11</a> For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-32.htm">Psalm 37:32,33</a> The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/1-11.htm">Proverbs 1:11,12,16</a> Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/4-16.htm">Proverbs 4:16</a> They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/59-7.htm">Isaiah 59:7</a> Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/3-14.htm">Romans 3:14-16</a> Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/acts/23.htm">The Plot to Kill Paul</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">14</span>Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul. <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl">Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.</span> <span class="reftext">16</span>Which when Paul's sister's son had heard, of their lying in wait, he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/18-12.htm">John 18:12</a></span><br />Then the band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took Jesus and bound him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/22-30.htm">Acts 22:30</a></span><br />But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what cause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the priests to come together and all the council: and, bringing forth Paul, he set him before them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/23-1.htm">Acts 23:1</a></span><br />And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have conversed with all good conscience before God until this present day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/23-6.htm">Acts 23:6</a></span><br />And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/acts/23-10.htm">Captain</a> <a href="/acts/19-40.htm">Case</a> <a href="/acts/23-14.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/acts/23-10.htm">Commander</a> <a href="/acts/23-10.htm">Commanding</a> <a href="/acts/23-6.htm">Council</a> <a href="/acts/19-39.htm">Enquire</a> <a href="/acts/22-30.htm">Exactly</a> <a href="/mark/11-18.htm">Impression</a> <a 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