Acts 15:34

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What's In Your Bible: Acts 15:34

Acts 15:34 KJB - "Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still."

This verse is found in numerous Greek manuscripts including 5, 6, 33, 36, 88, 94, 180, 307, 323, 326, 383, 431, 441, 453, 467, 610, 614m 619, 621, 623, 808, 915, 1162, 1175, 1270, 1297, 1409, 1501, 1595, 1609, 1678, 1729,

Ancient translations:

the Old Latin c

Syriac Harklean

Syriac Peshitta

Coptic Sahidic

Armenian

Ethiopian, and Slavonic.

Early church writers:

Cassiodourus and Theophylact.

The context of Acts 15 itself supports the idea that Silas DID chose to remain in Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas, since "some days after" Barnabas chose John, whose surname was Mark, and Paul chose this same Silas to go on a missionary journey. See verses 15:35-41.

This entire verse omitted in most modern versions that are based on the UBS, Nestle-Aland/Vatican critical text, including the ESV, NIV, NET, Holman, Jehovah Witness New World Translation.

The NASBs of 1963, 1972, 1973 omitted the verse

Then in 1977 and 1995 to put the verse back in their text but this time with brackets

In 2020 they omitted it again

NIV English omits all of Acts 15:34

Portuguese translation of the NIV, 1999, contains it

Reformation Bibles:

Wycliffe

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew's Bible

Great Bible

Geneva Bible

Bishops' Bible

Douay-Rheims

King James

Beza NT

Foreign Language Bibles.

1569 Spanish Sagradas Escrituras

Cipriano de Valera 1602

Spanish Reina Valera 1909 –

Reina Valera Gómez 2010

Luther's German Bible

Schlachter Bible

French Martin

Louis Segond

French Ostervald

Italian Diodati

Italian Riveduta 1927- 2006

Portuguese A Biblia Sagrada

Almeida Corregida

Dutch Staten Vertaling Bible

Finnish Bible

Tagalog Ang Bible

Ang Salita ng Diyos

Chinese Union Traditional Bible

Norwegian Det Norsk Bibelselskap

Romanian Cornilescu Bible

Fidela Bible

Afrikaans Bible

Hungarian Karoli Bible

Russian Synodal Version

Polish Updated Gdansk Bible

Special Thanks to Will Kinney for his exhaustive research.

Dr. Steven A. Hite

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