Acts
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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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Acts 27:42 Context
39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. 41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: 44And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
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Translation Details for Acts 27:42
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Other Translations for Acts 27:42
Bible Commentary for Acts 27:42
Wesley's Notes for Acts 27:42
27:42 The counsel - Cruel, unjust, ungrateful.
People's Bible Notes for Acts 27:42
Ac 27:42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners. We have here an illustration of the extreme brutality of the rank and file of the Roman army. They would rather kill the prisoners than to run the risk of their escape.
And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none {of them} would swim away and escape;
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any `of them' should swim out, and escape.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.
- Basic English Bible
And [the] counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.
- Darby Bible
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- Webster's Bible
Now the soldiers recommended that the prisoners should be killed, for fear some one of them might swim ashore and effect his escape.
- Weymouth Bible
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
- World English Bible
And counsel of the kniytis was, to sle men that weren in warde, lest ony schulde ascape, whanne he hadde swymmed out.
- Wycliffe Bible
And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,
- Youngs Literal Bible