Acts 13:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμᾶς εὐαγγελιζόμεθα, τὴν πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίαν γενομένην,

Transliteration

And we you euangelizometha, the pros the pateras epangelian genomenēn,

Grammar Details

• *euangelizometha*: present, middle, indicative, 1st person plural - we proclaim good news
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *pateras*: accusative, masculine, plural - fathers
• *epangelian*: accusative, feminine, singular - promise
• *genomenēn*: aorist, middle, participle, accusative, feminine, singular - having become/having been made

Word Meanings

• *euangelizometha*: we proclaim good news/we bring good tidings/we evangelize
• *pateras*: fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *epangelian*: promise/pledge/announcement
• *genomenēn*: having become/having been made/having happened

Referenced Verses

• Acts 26:6 : 6 And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;
• Rom 4:13 : 13 For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Jer 23:5 : 5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
• Ezek 34:23 : 23 And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.
• Mic 5:2 : 2 For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.
• Zech 6:12 : 12 And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
• Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.
• Mal 3:1 : 1 See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
• Luke 1:19 : 19 And the angel, answering, said, I am Gabriel, whose place is before God; I have been sent to say these words to you and to give you this good news.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever, 55 As he gave his word to our fathers.
• Luke 1:68-73 : 68 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free, 69 Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 (As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,) 71 Salvation from those who are against us, and from the hands of those who have hate for us; 72 To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word, 73 The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,
• Luke 2:10 : 10 And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:
• Acts 3:19 : 19 So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
• Acts 5:42 : 42 And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
• Acts 13:38 : 38 And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:
• Gen 3:15 : 15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
• Gen 22:18 : 18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
• Deut 18:15 : 15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;
• Isa 7:14 : 14 For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
• Isa 11:1 : 1 And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
• Isa 40:9 : 9 You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!
• Isa 41:27 : 27 I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.
• Isa 52:7 : 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
• Hag 2:7 : 7 And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. 25 Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. 26 And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
• Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
• Rom 10:15 : 15 And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.
• Gal 3:16-18 : 16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ. 17 Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect. 18 Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.