Acts 27:42
“And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape.”
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Acts 27:42 Context
40And when they had taken vp the ankers, they committed themselues vnto the sea, & loosed the rudder bands, and hoised vp the maine saile to the winde, and made toward shore. 41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ranne the shippe a ground, and the forepart stucke fast, and remained vnmoueable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waues. 42And the souldiers counsel was to kil the prisoners, lest any of them should swimme out, and escape. 43But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land: 44And the rest, some on boords, and some on broken pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they escaped all safe to land.
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Other Translations for Acts 27:42
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
- King James Version
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
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.