Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Assayed to kill me (epeirwnto diaxeirisasqai). Conative imperfect middle of peiraw, the old form of the later Koin‚ peirazw so common in the Koin‚, but in N.T. here only. Some MSS. have it in Acts 9:26; Hebrews 4:15. The old verb diaxeirizw, to take in hand, middle to lay hands on, to slay, occurs in N.T. only here and Acts 5:30 which see.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 26:21:
Acts 5:30
James 1:2
James 1:15
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