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Acts 5:40

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5:40and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten.107 Then108 they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

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  1. 107 Had them beaten. The punishment was the “forty lashes minus one,” see also Acts 22:19; 2 Cor 11:24; Mark 13:9. The apostles had disobeyed the religious authorities and took their punishment for their “disobedience” (Deut 25:2–3; Makkot 3:10–14). In Acts 4:18 they were warned. Now they are beaten. The hostility is rising as the narrative unfolds.
  2. 108 The word “Then” is supplied as the beginning of a new sentence in the translation. The construction in Greek has so many clauses (most of them made up of participles) that a continuous English sentence would be very awkward.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

NLTNew Living Translation

The others accepted his advice. They called in the apostles and had them flogged. Then they ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus, and they let them go.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they summoned the apostles, beat them, commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

KJV 1900King James Version

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.