Acts 24:7
5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- KJV
- But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
- ASV
- [But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,]
- DARBY
- but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands,
- ÅB
- men Lysias, den øverste høvedsmann, kom til og tok ham med makt og vold ut av våre hender,
- OTB
- [og vi ville ha dømt ham etter vår lov]
- B1930
- men Lysias, den øverste høvedsmann, kom til og tok ham med makt og vold ut av våre hender,