Acts 23:20 - Exposition

Ask thee to bring for desire thee that then wouldest bring, A.V unto for into, A.V.; thou wouldest for they would, A.V. and T.R.; more exactly concerning him for of him more perfectly, A.V. Have agreed . συντίθημι occurs four times in the New Testament, of which three are in St. Luke's writings ( Luke 22:5 ; this passage; and Acts 24:9 ), and the fourth in John 9:22 . As though thou wouldest . The R.T., which reads μέλλων for μέλλοντες , must surely be wrong. It is in contradiction to John 9:15 , and makes no sense. The pretext of further inquiry was theirs, not Lysias's.