Acts 3:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς δὲ τὸν Ἅγιον καὶ Δίκαιον ἠρνήσασθε, καὶ ᾐτήσασθε ἄνδρα φονέα χαρισθῆναι ὑμῖν·

Transliteration

You de the Hagion and Dikaion ērnēsasthe, and ētēsasthe andra phonea to be charisthēnai to you;

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *Hagion*: accusative masculine singular - Holy One
• *Dikaion*: accusative masculine singular - Righteous One
• *ērnēsasthe*: aorist middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you denied
• *ētēsasthe*: aorist middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you requested
• *andra*: accusative masculine singular - man
• *phonea*: accusative masculine singular - murderer
• *charisthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be granted as a favor

Word Meanings

• *ērnēsasthe*: denied/disowned/rejected
• *ētēsasthe*: requested/asked for/demanded
• *phonea*: murderer/killer
• *charisthēnai*: to be granted as a favor/to be given as a gift

Referenced Verses

• Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, {G1436} What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Acts 4:27 : 27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
• 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;
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also {G3958} suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
• 1 John 2:1 : 1 My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
• Acts 22:14 : 14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
• Luke 23:18-19 : 18 But they cried out all together, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:— 19 one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
• Luke 23:25 : 25 And he released him that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
• Acts 2:27 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
• Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
• Mark 15:7 : 7 And there was one called Barabbas, [lying] bound with them that had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
• Mark 15:11 : 11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 {G1063} Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.