Acts 20:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ νῦν, ἰδού, ἐγὼ δεδεμένος τῷ πνεύματι πορεύομαι εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ συναντήσοντά μοι μὴ εἰδώς:

Transliteration

And now, idou, I dedemenos the pneumati poreuomai to Ierousalēm, the in her synantēsonta me not eidōs:

Grammar Details

*idou*: aorist imperative, middle, 2nd person singular - behold/look
*dedemenos*: perfect participle, passive, nominative, masculine, singular - having been bound
*pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - spirit
*poreuomai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I go/journey
*Ierousalēm*: accusative, feminine, singular - Jerusalem (place name)
*synantēsonta*: future participle, active, accusative, neuter, plural - things that will meet/happen
*eidōs*: perfect participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - knowing

Word Meanings

*idou*: behold/look/see
*dedemenos*: having been bound/constrained/compelled
*pneumati*: spirit/Spirit
*poreuomai*: I go/journey/travel
*synantēsonta*: things that will meet/happen/befall
*eidōs*: knowing/understanding

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Referenced Verses

Luke 9:51 : 51 And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
Luke 12:50 : 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Luke 18:31-33 : 31 And he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets shall be accomplished unto the Son of man. 32 For he shall be delivered up unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon: 33 and they shall scourge and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the passover, {G3588} Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 18:4 : 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye?
Acts 17:16 : 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.
Acts 19:21 : 21 Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Acts 20:16 : 16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Acts 21:11-14 : 11 And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. 12 And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died;
Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
2 Pet 1:14 : 14 knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.

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