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Acts 4:5

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4:5On the next day,14 their rulers, elders, and experts in the law15 came together16 in Jerusalem.17

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Footnotes

  1. 14 Grk “It happened that on the next day.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
  2. 15 Or “and scribes.” The traditional rendering of γραμματεύς (grammateus) as “scribe” does not communicate much to the modern English reader, for whom the term might mean “professional copyist,” if it means anything at all. The people referred to here were recognized experts in the law of Moses and in traditional laws and regulations. Thus “expert in the law” comes closer to the meaning for the modern reader. Experts in the law would have been mostly like the Pharisees in approach. Thus various sects of Judaism were coming together against Jesus.
  3. 16 Or “law assembled,” “law met together.”
  4. 17 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem

NLTNew Living Translation

The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,

KJV 1900King James Version

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,