What Does Acts 23:14 Mean?

“And they”

which some, i.e., any that; also (definite) which same

“came to”

to approach, i.e., (literally) come near, visit, or (figuratively) worship, assent to

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“the chief priests”

the high-priest (literally, of the jews; typically, christ); by extension a chief priest

“and”

and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“elders”

older; as noun, a senior; specially, an israelite sanhedrist (also figuratively, member of the celestial council) or christian "presbyter"

“and said”

to speak or say (by word or writing)

“under a great curse”

a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person)

“We have bound”

to declare or vow under penalty of execration

“ourselves”

(him- her-, it-, them-, my-, thy-, our-, your-)self (selves), etc

“nothing”

not even one (man, woman, thing)

“that we will eat”

to taste; by implication, to eat; figuratively, to experience (good or ill)

“until”

a conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until (of time and place)

the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that

“we have slain”

to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“Paul”

(little; but remotely from a derivative of g3973, meaning the same); paulus, the name of a roman and of an apostle