Acts 13:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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].

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἱ γὰρ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτῶν, τοῦτον ἀγνοήσαντες, καὶ τὰς φωνὰς τῶν προφητῶν τὰς κατὰ πᾶν σάββατον ἀναγινωσκομένας, κρίναντες ἐπλήρωσαν.

Transliteration

The gar katoikountes in Ierousalēm, and the archontes of-them, this-one agnoēsantes, and the phōnas of-the prophētōn the according-to every sabbaton anaginōskomenas, krinantes eplērōsan.

Grammar Details

• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *katoikountes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - dwelling/inhabiting
• *Ierousalēm*: dative, feminine, singular - proper name
• *archontes*: nominative, masculine, plural - rulers
• *agnoēsantes*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been ignorant of
• *phōnas*: accusative, feminine, plural - voices/utterances
• *prophētōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - prophets
• *sabbaton*: accusative, neuter, singular - sabbath
• *anaginōskomenas*: present, passive, participle, accusative, feminine, plural - being read
• *krinantes*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having judged
• *eplērōsan*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they fulfilled

Word Meanings

• *katoikountes*: dwelling/inhabiting/residing
• *archontes*: rulers/leaders/authorities
• *agnoēsantes*: having been ignorant of/not recognizing/failing to understand
• *phōnas*: voices/words/utterances
• *anaginōskomenas*: being read/being recited
• *krinantes*: having judged/having condemned/having decided
• *eplērōsan*: fulfilled/completed/accomplished

Referenced Verses

• Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
• 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ.
• Luke 24:20 : 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
• Acts 15:21 : 21 For Moses from generations of old hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.
• Acts 26:22-23 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing {G1622} but what the prophets and Moses did say should come; 23 how that the Christ must suffer, [and] how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.
• Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded [the matter,] testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.
• Rom 11:8-9 : 8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made {G1519} a snare, and {G1519} a trap, And {G1519} a stumblingblock, and {G1519} a recompense unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.
• Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest {G3361} ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;
• 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
• Gen 50:20 : 20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
• Matt 22:29 : 29 But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Matt 26:54-56 : 54 How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be? 55 In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not. 56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
• Luke 22:34 : 34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, until thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
• Luke 24:24-27 : 24 And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. 25 And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Luke 24:44-45 : 44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
• John 8:28 : 28 Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things.
• John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• John 16:3 : 3 And these things will they do, {G5213} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• John 19:28-30 : 28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. 29 There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
• John 19:36-37 : 36 For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
• Acts 13:14-15 : 14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, {G435} Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation {G5213} for the people, say on.