Acts 23:14 - Exposition

The elders for elders, A.V.; to taste for that we will eat, A.V.; killed for slain, A.V. The chief priests , etc. Meaning, no doubt, those who were of the party of the Sadducees, to which the chief priests mainly belonged at this time. A great curse . There is nothing in the phraseology of this verse, as compared with that of Acts 23:12 , to warrant the introduction of the word "great." It is simply, "We have anathematized ourselves with an anathema."