Acts 24:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And haue hope towardes God, that the resurrection of the dead which they them selues loke for also, shalbe both of the iust and vniust.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐλπίδα ἔχων εἰς τὸν Θεόν, ἣν καὶ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι προσδέχονται, ἀνάστασιν μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι νεκρῶν, δικαίων τε καὶ ἀδίκων.

Transliteration

Elpida echōn toward the Theon, which also themselves these prosdechontai, anastasin mellein esesthai of nekrōn, of dikaiōn te and of adikōn.

Grammar Details

• *Elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - hope
• *echōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *prosdechontai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd plural - they expect/accept
• *anastasin*: accusative, feminine, singular - resurrection
• *mellein*: present active infinitive - to be about to
• *esesthai*: future middle infinitive - to be
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - dead ones
• *dikaiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - righteous ones
• *te*: conjunction - both/and
• *adikōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - unrighteous ones

Word Meanings

• *Elpida*: hope/expectation
• *prosdechontai*: they expect/accept/await
• *anastasin*: resurrection/rising up
• *mellein*: to be about to/going to
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses
• *dikaiōn*: righteous ones/just persons
• *adikōn*: unrighteous ones/unjust persons

Referenced Verses

• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth, shal awake, some to euerlasting life, & some to shame & perpetuall contempt.
• 1 Thess 4:14-16 : 14 For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym. 15 For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche lyue, remayning vnto the comyng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe. 16 For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, and in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first.
• John 5:28-29 : 28 Marueyle not at this: For the houre shall come, in the whiche all that are in the graues shall heare his voyce. 29 And shall come foorth, they that haue done good, vnto the resurrection of lyfe, and they that haue done euyll, vnto the resurrection of dampnation.
• Acts 23:6-8 : 6 But when Paul perceaued that the one part were saducees, and the other pharisees, he cryed out in the counsell: Men and brethren, I am a pharisee, the sonne of a pharisee: Of the hope & resurrection of the dead, I am iudged. 7 And when he had so sayde, there arose a debate betwene the pharisees and the saducees, & the multitude was deuided. 8 For the saducees say, that there is no resurrection, neither Angel, nor spirite: But the pharisees confesse both.
• Acts 24:21 : 21 Except it be for this one voyce, that I cryed standyng among them, of the resurrection from the dead, am I iudged of you this day.
• Acts 26:6-7 : 6 And nowe I stande and am iudged, for the hope of the promise made of God vnto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise, our twelue tribes instantly seruyng God day & nyght, hope to come. For which hopes sake, kyng Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.
• Acts 28:20-31 : 20 For this cause then haue I called for you, euen to see you and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel, I am bounde with this chayne. 21 And they said vnto him: We neither receaued letters out of Iurie concernyng thee, neither any of the brethren that came, shewed or spake any harme of thee. 22 But we wyll heare of thee, what thou thynkest: For as concernyng this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoke agaynst. 23 And when they had appoynted hym a day, there came many to hym into his lodgyng, to whom he expounded and testified the kyngdome of God, perswadyng them concernyng Iesus, both out of the lawe of Moyses, and out of the prophetes, euen from morning to night. 24 And some were perswaded in the thynges which were spoken, and some beleued not. 25 And when they agreed not among them selues, they departed after that Paul had spoken one worde, that is to say well spake the holy ghost by Esaias the prophete, vnto our fathers, 26 Saying: Go vnto this people, and say, with your eares shall ye heare, and shall not vnderstande: and with your eyes shall ye see, and not perceaue. 27 For the heart of this people is waxed grosse, & their eares are dull of hearing, and their eyes haue they closed: lest they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and shoulde be conuerted, and I shoulde heale them. 28 Be it knowen therfore vnto you, that this saluation of God is sent to the gentiles, and they shall heare it. 29 And when he had sayde these wordes, the Iewes departed, and had great reasonyng among them selues. 30 And Paul dwelt two yeres full in his owne hired house, and receaued all that came in vnto hym, 31 Preachyng the kyngdome of God, and teachyng those thynges which concerne the Lorde Iesus Christe, with all confidence, no man forbyddyng hym.
• 1 Cor 15:12-27 : 12 If Christe be preached howe that he rose from the dead: howe say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there be no rysyng agayne of the dead, then is Christe not rysen agayne. 14 If Christe be not rysen agayne, then is our preachyng vayne, and your fayth is also vayne. 15 Yea, and we are founde false witnesses of God: For we haue testified of God, howe that he raysed vp Christe, whom he raysed not vp, yf it be so that the dead ryse not agayne. 16 For yf the dead ryse not agayne, then is not Christe rysen agayne. 17 If it be so, that Christ rose not againe, then is your fayth vayne, and ye are yet in your sinnes. 18 Therfore, they which are fallen in a slepe in Christe, are perisshed. 19 If in this lyfe only we haue hope on Christe, then are we of all men moste miserable. 20 But nowe is Christe rysen from the dead, the first fruites of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, euen so by man came the resurrection of ye dead. 22 For, as by Adam all dye: euen so by Christe shall all be made alyue, 23 But euery man in his owne order. The first fruites is Christe, afterward, they that are Christes at his commyng. 24 Then commeth the ende, when he hath deliuered vp the kingdome to God the father, when he hath put downe all rule, and all auctoritie, and power. 25 For he must raigne tyll he haue put all his enemies vnder his feete. 26 The last enemie that shalbe destroyed, is death. 27 For he hath put downe all thynges vnder his feete: But when he saith, all thynges are vnder hym, it is manifest that he is excepted which dyd put all thynges vnder hym.
• Phil 3:21 : 21 Who shall chaunge our vyle body, that it may be fashioned lyke vnto his glorious body, according to the working wherby he is able to subdue all thynges vnto hym selfe.
• Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: For on such shal the seconde death haue no power, but they shalbe the priestes of God and of Christe, and shall raigne with hym a thousande yeres.
• Rev 20:12-13 : 12 And I sawe the dead both great and small stand before God, and the bookes were opened: and another booke was opened, which is the booke of lyfe, and the dead were iudged of those thynges whiche were written in the bookes, accordyng to their deedes. 13 And the sea gaue vp her dead whiche were in her, and death and hell delyuered vp the dead whiche were in them: and they were iudged euery man accordyng to his deedes.
• Matt 22:31-32 : 31 But as touchyng the resurrection of the dead: haue ye not read that which is spoken vnto you of God, which sayth. 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the lyuyng.
• Job 19:25-26 : 25 For I am sure that my redeemer saueth, and he shall rayse vp at the latter day them that lye in the dust. 26 And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe: