Acts 10:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew, hanging him on a tree.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν μάρτυρες πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ἔν τε τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, καὶ ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ· ὃν ἀνεῖλον κρεμάσαντες ἐπὶ ξύλου:

Transliteration

And we esmen martyres of all things which he epoiēsen in both the chōra of the Ioudaiōn, and in Ierousalēm; whom they aneilon having kremasantes upon xylou:

Grammar Details

*esmen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - we are
*martyres*: nominative, masculine, plural - witnesses
*epoiēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - he did/performed
*chōra*: dative, feminine, singular - country/land/region
*Ioudaiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of Jews
*Ierousalēm*: dative, feminine, singular - Jerusalem (place name)
*aneilon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - they killed/put to death
*kremasantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having hanged/suspended
*xylou*: genitive, neuter, singular - tree/wood/cross

Word Meanings

*martyres*: witnesses/testifiers
*epoiēsen*: did/performed/accomplished
*aneilon*: killed/put to death/did away with
*xylou*: tree/wood/cross/timber

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Referenced Verses

Luke 24:48 : 48 {G1161} Ye are witnesses of these things.
Acts 10:41 : 41 not to all the people, but unto witnesses that were chosen before of God, [even] to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts 1:8 : 8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 3:14-15 : 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 4:10 : 10 be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] in him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts 5:30-32 : 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree. 31 Him did God exalt with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 And we are {G846} witnesses of these things; and [so] [is] the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
Acts 1:22 : 22 beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.
Acts 2:23-24 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay: 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
John 15:27 : 27 and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Acts 13:27-29 : 27 For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every {G2596} sabbath, fulfilled [them] by condemning [him]. 28 And though they found no cause of death [in him], yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain. 29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
Acts 13:31 : 31 and he was seen for many days of them that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses unto the people.
Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
Luke 1:2 : 2 even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

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