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Acts 22–28
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Commentary
The New Testament Minute is a commentary series made especially for the free ScripturePlus app, which features insights from New Testament scholars. many of the insights in the New Testament Minute are gleaned from the BYU New Testament Commentary series. Lynne Hilton Wilson has written a commentary to supplement her New Testament video series.
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Reading Plan
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Monday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 22:6-7
- Scripture: Acts 22:1-29
- Commentary: Acts 21:10–22:29. Precedent 47: Paul Is Arrested at the Temple in Jerusalem
Tuesday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 23:11
- Scripture: Acts 22:30
- Scripture: Acts 23:1-35
- Commentary: Acts 22:30–23:22. Precedent 48: Success before the Sanhedrin
- Commentary: Acts 23:23–35. Precedent 49: Paul before Felix, Part 1—Receiving and Accepting the Case
Wednesday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 24:16
- Scripture: Acts 24:1-27
- Commentary: Acts 24:1–27. Precedent 50: Paul before Felix, Part 2—Hearing the Case
Thursday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 25:10-11
- Scripture: Acts 25:1-22
Friday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 26:22-23
- Scripture: Acts 25:23-27
- Scripture: Acts 26:1-32
- Commentary: Acts 25:1–26:32. Precedent 51: Proceedings before Festus and King Agrippa
Saturday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 27:22-24
- Scripture: Acts 27:1-44
- Commentary: Acts 27:1–28:13. Precedent 52: Paul Is Preserved during His Journey to Rome
Sunday
- Verse of the Day: Acts 28:3; Acts 28:6
- Scripture: Acts 28:1-31
- Video: BibleProject - Bound for Rome: Acts 21-28
- Commentary: Acts 28:14–31. Precedent 53: Paul in Rome to Appeal to Caesar
Joseph Smith Translation Variants
Explore Joseph Smith's inspired translation of the bible by comparing his changes to the King James Version of the New Testament. To learn more, see Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible: The Joseph Smith Translation and the King James Translation in Parallel Columns.
Acts 22 JST Variants
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(29) Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. |
(29) Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman. And he loosed him from his bonds, because he had bound him. |
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(30) On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them. |
(30) On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he |
Acts 23 JST Variants
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(5) Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. |
(5) Then said Paul, I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. |
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(15) Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him. |
(15) Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, before he come near, are ready to kill him. |
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(27) This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. |
(27) This man was taken of the Jews, and would have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. |
Acts 25 JST Variants
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(17) Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth. |
(17) Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay the day following I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought forth. |
Reading Resources
Acts 22–28
Lynne Hilton Wilson, "Acts 22–28," Come Follow Me: The New Testament, 2019.
Taylor Halverson, “The Role and Purpose of Synagogues in the Days of Jesus and Paul,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 34 (2020): 41-52.
Nicholas J. Frederick and Frank F. Judd Jr., “The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Paul: Presenting a Deeper, Full Christology” in Thou Art the Christ: The Son of the Living God, The Person and Work of Jesus in the New Testament, ed. Eric D. Huntsman, Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. Griffin (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018), 192–215.
Taylor Halverson, “Acts 21-28. Faithfully Witness of Christ,” The Interpreter Foundation, October 10, 2015.
David Rolph Seely and Jo Ann Seely, “Paul: An Untiring Witness of Christ,” Ensign August 1999.
Frank Judd Jr., “The Apostle Paul as Master Teacher,” Ensign September 2015.
C. Wilfred Griggs, “‘An Hebrew of the Hebrews’: Paul’s Language and Thought,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006), 237–253.
Brandt, Edward J., “The Law of Moses and the Law of Christ” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book 2005), 133–153.
John A. Tvedtnes, “Biblical and Non-Biblical Quotes in the Sermons and Epistles of Paul,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 3 (2013): 7–61.
John A. Tvedtnes, “Variants in the Stories of the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the Apostle Paul,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter0day Saint Faith and Scholarship 2 (2012): 73–86.
“Agrippa II,” New World Encyclopedia.
“Antonius Felix,” Wikipedia, accessed June 6, 2019.
“Porcius Festus,” Wikipedia, accessed June 6, 2019.