Acts 18:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when he had a desire to go over into Achaia, the brothers gave him help, and sent letters to the disciples requesting them to take him in among them: and when he had come, he gave much help to those who had faith through grace:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βουλομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ διελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Ἀχαΐαν, προτρεψάμενοι οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἔγραψαν τοῖς μαθηταῖς ἀποδέξασθαι αὐτόν: ὃς, παραγενόμενος, συνεβάλετο πολὺ τοῖς πεπιστευκόσιν διὰ τῆς χάριτος:

Transliteration

Boulomenou de autou dielthein eis tēn Achaian, protrepsamenoi hoi adelphoi egrapsan tois mathētais apodexasthai auton: hos, paragenomenos, synebaleto poly tois pepisteukōsin dia tēs charitos:

Grammar Details

• *Boulomenou*: present middle/passive participle, genitive masculine singular - desiring/wishing
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *autou*: genitive masculine singular pronoun - he/him
• *dielthein*: aorist active infinitive - to go through/pass
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - to/into
• *tēn Achaian*: article + accusative feminine singular - Achaia
• *protrepsamenoi*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine plural - having encouraged
• *hoi adelphoi*: article + nominative masculine plural - the brothers
• *egrapsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they wrote
• *tois mathētais*: article + dative masculine plural - to the disciples
• *apodexasthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to receive/welcome
• *auton*: accusative masculine singular pronoun - him
• *hos*: relative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - who
• *paragenomenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular - having arrived
• *synebaleto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - he helped/contributed
• *poly*: adverb - much/greatly
• *tois pepisteukōsin*: article + perfect active participle, dative masculine plural - those having believed
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through
• *tēs charitos*: article + genitive feminine singular - the grace

Word Meanings

• *Boulomenou dielthein*: desiring to go/wishing to pass/wanting to travel
• *protrepsamenoi*: having encouraged/having exhorted
• *egrapsan tois mathētais apodexasthai auton*: wrote to the disciples to welcome him
• *paragenomenos*: having arrived/having come
• *synebaleto poly*: helped much/contributed greatly/was of great assistance
• *tois pepisteukōsin*: those having believed/the believers
• *dia tēs charitos*: through the grace/by the grace (could refer to God's grace or Apollos' gracious manner)

Referenced Verses

• John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
• Acts 9:27 : 27 But Barnabas took him to the Apostles and gave them an account of how he had seen the Lord on the road, and had given hearing to his words, and how at Damascus he had been preaching in the name of Jesus without fear.
• Acts 18:12 : 12 But when Gallio was ruler of Achaia, all the Jews together made an attack on Paul, and took him to the judge's seat,
• Acts 18:18 : 18 And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.
• Acts 19:1 : 1 And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:
• Rom 1:5 : 5 Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:
• Rom 16:1-2 : 1 It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae: 2 That you will take her in kindly, after the way of the saints, as one who is the Lord's, and give her help in anything in which she may have need of you: because she has been a help to a great number and to myself.
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
• 1 Cor 3:10-14 : 10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it. 11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems; 13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work. 14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
• 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 And when I come, I will send the men of your selection with letters to take the money you have got together to Jerusalem.
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.
• 2 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;
• Eph 2:8-9 : 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: 9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself. 10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
• Phil 1:25 : 25 And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;
• Phil 1:29 : 29 Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
• Col 2:12 : 12 Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
• Col 4:10 : 10 Aristarchus, my brother-prisoner, sends his love to you, and Mark, a relation of Barnabas (about whom you have been given orders: if he comes to you, be kind to him),
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, 6 Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
• 1 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 3 John 1:8-9 : 8 So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith. 9 I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there. 10 So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.