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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.TR and NU omit “Jesus” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists,The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture. but they were seeking to kill him.”
— WEB
“And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.”
— KJV
“preaching boldly in the name of the Lord: and he spake and disputed against the Grecian Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.”
— ASV
disputed against the Grecians--(See on Act 6:1); addressing himself specially to them, perhaps, as being of his own class, and that against which he had in the days of his ignorance been the fiercest. they went about to slay him--Thus was he made to feel, throughout his whole course, what he himself had made others so cruelly to feel, the cost of discipleship.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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