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Noun speira (cohort) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 27: 27 | Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort (speira) around him. |
Mark
| 15: 16 | Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort (speira). |
John
| 18: 3 | So Judas brought the cohort (speira) with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. |
| 18: 12 | So the cohorts (speira), their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. |
Acts
| 10: 1 | In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort (speira), as it was called. |
| 21: 31 | While they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort (speira) that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. |
| 27: 1 | When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort (speira), named Julius. |
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