Acts 24:7: Why Modern Bibles Leave It Out, and the Evidence

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Acts 24:7

“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands” is in the Vulgate, and Chrysostom, preaching on Acts about AD 400, speaks of Tertullus’s complaint that Lysias snatched Paul out of the Jews’ hands.

The King James Bible

7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, Read Acts 24

παρελθὼν δὲ Λυσίας ὁ χιλίαρχος μετὰ πολλῆς βίας ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν ἀπήγαγε, parelthōn de Lusias ho chiliarchos meta pollēs bias ek tōn cheirōn hēmōn apēgage

Early Translations

Latin Vulgate vg Jerome, c. 400

Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)

Church Fathers

John Chrysostom Homilies on Acts 50 · c. AD 400

Alludes to it

“And then the accusation against Lysias: though he had no right, say they, to interfere, in the excess of his confidence he snatched him from us.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 ›

Checked against: NPNF1 11

Printed Greek Texts with This Reading

Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)

Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.