Hebrews 12:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Lokyng vnto Iesus, the captayne and finissher of our fayth, which for the ioy that was set before hym, endured the crosse, hauyng dispised the shame, and is set downe on the ryght hande of the throne of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀφορῶντες εἰς τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἀρχηγὸν καὶ τελειωτὴν Ἰησοῦν· ὃς ἀντὶ τῆς προκειμένης αὐτῷ χαρᾶς ὑπέμεινεν σταυρὸν, αἰσχύνης καταφρονήσας, ἐν δεξιᾷ τε τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ Θεοῦ εκάθισεν.

Transliteration

Aphorōntes unto the of pisteōs archēgon and teleiōtēn Iēsoun; who anti the prokeimenēs to him charas hypemeinen stauron, aischynēs kataphronēsas, in right and of the thronou of Theou ekathisen.

Grammar Details

• *Aphorōntes*: participle, present active, nominative, plural, masculine - looking away/fixing eyes
• *pisteōs*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of faith
• *archēgon*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - author/founder/leader
• *teleiōtēn*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - perfecter/completer/finisher
• *Iēsoun*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - Jesus
• *anti*: preposition + genitive - instead of/for/in place of
• *prokeimenēs*: participle, present middle/passive, genitive, singular, feminine - set before/lying before
• *charas*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of joy
• *hypemeinen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - endured/withstood
• *stauron*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - cross
• *aischynēs*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of shame
• *kataphronēsas*: participle, aorist active, nominative, singular, masculine - having despised/disregarded
• *thronou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of throne
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of God
• *ekathisen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - sat down

Word Meanings

• *Aphorōntes*: looking away/fixing eyes upon/gazing at
• *archēgon*: author/founder/leader/originator/prince
• *teleiōtēn*: perfecter/completer/finisher
• *anti*: instead of/for/in place of/because of
• *kataphronēsas*: having despised/disregarded/thought little of/shown contempt for

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:7 : 7 Neuerthelesse, I wil looke vp vnto the Lorde, I will patiently abyde God my sauiour: my God shall heare me.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Who beyng the bryghtnesse of the glorie, and the very image of his substaunce, vpholdyng all thynges with the worde of his power, hauing by him selfe pourged our sinnes, hath syt on the ryght hande of the maiestie on hye:
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walke ye in loue, euen as Christe hath loued vs, and hath geuen hym selfe for vs an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smellyng sauour to God.
• Titus 2:13-14 : 13 Lokyng for that blessed hope and appearyng of the glorie of the great God, and our sauiour Iesus Christe, 14 Which gaue hym selfe for vs, that he myght redeeme vs from all vnryghteousnesse, and pourge vs a peculier people vnto hym selfe, zelous of good workes.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Forasmuch as Christe hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust for the vniust to bryng vs to God, and was kylled as parteynyng to the fleshe, but was quickened in the spirite.
• 1 Pet 2:23-24 : 23 Whiche when he was reuiled, reuiled not agayne: when he suffred, he threatned not, but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth righteously. 24 Which his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we beyng deliuered from sinne, shoulde liue vnto ryghteousnes: By whose strypes ye were healed.
• Heb 9:28 : 28 Euen so, Christe once offered to take away the sinnes of many, the seconde time shalbe seene without sinne, of them which wayte for hym vnto saluation.
• Phil 3:20 : 20 But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we loke for the sauiour, the Lorde Iesus Christe:
• Luke 24:26 : 26 Ought not Christe to haue suffered these thinges, & to enter into his glory?
• Acts 5:31 : 31 Hym hath God lyft vp with his ryght hande, to be a prince and a sauiour, for to geue repentaunce to Israel, and forgeuenesse of sinnes.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 Nowe is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therfore came I into this houre. 28 Father, glorifie thy name. Then came there a voyce from heauen saying I haue both glorified it, and wyll glorifie it agayne.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is dispised and abhorred of men, he is such a man as hath good experience of sorowes and infirmities: We haue reckened hym so vile, that we hyd our faces from hym.
• Ps 138:8 : 8 God wyll finishe that he hath begun by me: O God thy louing kindnesse endureth for euer, thou wylt not forsake the workes of thyne owne handes.
• Phil 1:6 : 6 And beyng perswaded of this same thyng, that he which hath begun good worke in you, wyll perfourme it vntyll the day of Iesus Christe,
• Phil 2:8-9 : 8 He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse. 9 Wherfore God also hath highly exalted hym, and geuen hym a name which is aboue euery name. 10 That in the name of Iesus euery knee should bowe, of thynges in heauen, and thynges in earth, and thinges vnder the earth: 11 And that euery tongue should confesse that the Lorde, Iesus Christe is to the glorie of God the father.
• Heb 5:9 : 9 And being perfect, was made the aucthour of eternall saluation vnto al them that obey hym:
• Heb 13:13 : 13 Let vs go foorth therfore vnto hym out of the tentes, bearyng his reproche.
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 Which is on the ryght hande of God, and is gone into heauen, angels, powers, and myght subdued vnto hym.
• Rev 2:8 : 8 And vnto the Angel of the Churche of Smyrna, write: These thynges sayth he that is first and the last, which was dead, and is alyue.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 Yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe, happy are ye. For the spirite of glory and of God, resteth vpon you: On their part he is euyll spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters. 16 Yf any man suffer as a Christian man, let hym not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe.
• 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Searchyng when or at what tyme the spirite of Christ which was in them, shoulde signifie, which spirite testified before, the passions that should happen vnto Christe, and the glorie that shoulde folowe after.
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Wherfore when he commeth into the worlde, he saith: Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not haue, but a body hast thou ordeyned me. 6 In burnt sacrifices & sinne (offerynges) thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then sayde I, lo I come (In the begynnyng of the booke it is written of me) to do thy wyll O God. 8 Aboue when he saith, that sacrifice, and offeryng, and burnt offeringes, and sinne offerynges thou wouldest not, neither haddest pleasure therein (which are offered by the lawe:) 9 Then sayde he, lo I come, to do thy wyll, O God. He taketh away ye first to stablyshe the seconde. 10 In ye which wyll we are made holy, euen by the offeryng of the body of Iesus Christe once for all. 11 And euery priest standeth dayly ministryng, & offeryng oftentymes the same sacrifices, whiche can neuer take away sinnes. 12 But this man, after he hath offered one sacrifice for sinnes, is sit downe for euer on the ryght hande of God:
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For with one offeryng hath he made perfite for euer them that are sanctified.
• Heb 10:33 : 33 Partly whyle ye were made a gasing stocke, both by reproches & afflictions, and partly whyle ye became companions of them whiche were so tossed to & fro.
• Heb 11:36 : 36 And others were tryed with mockynges, and scourgynges: Yea, moreouer with bondes and prisonment:
• Heb 7:19 : 19 For the lawe made nothyng perfect, but was the bryngyng in of a better hope, by the whiche we drawe nygh vnto God.
• Heb 8:1 : 1 But of the thinges whiche we haue spoken, this is ye summe: We haue such an hye priest that sitteth on ye ryght hand of ye throne of the maiestie in the heaues,
• Heb 1:13 : 13 But vnto which of ye Angels sayde he at any tyme: Sitte on my right hande, tyll I make thyne enemies thy foote stoole?
• Heb 2:7-9 : 7 Thou madest hym for a litle whyle lower then the Angels, thou hast crowned him with glorie and honour, and hast set hym aboue the workes of thy handes. 8 Thou hast put all thynges in subiectio vnder his feete. In yt he put all thinges vnder hym, he left nothyng that is not put vnder hym. But nowe, we see not yet all thynges put vnder hym. 9 But hym that for a whyle was made lesse then the Angels, we see that it was Iesus, who through the sufferyng of death, was crowned with glorie and honour, that he by the grace of God, shoulde taste of death for all. 10 For it became hym, for whom are all thynges, and by whom are all thynges, after he had brought many sonnes vnto glorie, that he shoulde make the capitayne of their saluation perfect through afflictions.
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Hencefoorth there is layde vp for me a crowne of ryghteousnesse, which the Lorde, the ryghteous iudge, shall geue me at that day: not to me only, but vnto the also yt haue loued his appearyng.
• Isa 8:17 : 17 And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.
• Isa 31:1 : 1 Wo be vnto them that go downe into Egypt for helpe, and trust in horses, and put their confidence in charrets because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lustie and strong: but they regarde not the holy one of Israel, and they aske no question at the Lorde.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 And therfore turne you vnto me, all ye endes of the earth, that ye may be saued: for I am God, and there is els none.
• Isa 49:6-7 : 6 And he sayde: It is but a small thyng that thou art my seruaunt to set vp the kinredes of Iacob, and to restore the destruction of Israel: For I haue made thee the lyght of the gentiles, that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of the worlde. 7 Moreouer, thus saith the Lorde the redeemer and holy one of Israel, concernyng the abhorred & dispised among the gentiles, the seruaunt of them that beare rule, kynges and princes shall see and arise, and worship because of the Lorde that is faythfull, and because of the holy one of Israel that hath chosen thee.
• Isa 50:6-7 : 6 But I offred my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I turned not my face from shame and spittinges. 7 And the Lorde God shall helpe me, therfore shall I not be confounded: I haue therfore hardened my face lyke a flint stone, for I am sure that I shall not come to confusion.
• Ps 16:9-9 : 9 Wherfore my heart is glad: my glory reioyceth, my fleshe also shall rest in a securitie. 10 For thou wylt not leaue my soule in hell: neither wylt thou suffer thyne holy one to see corruption. 11 Thou wylt cause me to knowe the path of lyfe: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy, and at thy right hand there be pleasures for euermore.
• Ps 22:6-8 : 6 But as for me I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of men, and an outcast of the people. 7 All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head at me. 8 Saying he referreth all to God, loking that God wyll deliuer him and rescue him: for he delighteth only in him.
• Ps 69:19-20 : 19 Thou hast knowen my reproofe, my shame, and my dishonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght. 20 Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.
• Ps 110:1 : 1 A psalme of Dauid. God sayd vnto my Lorde: sit thou on my right hande, vntyll I make thyne enemies thy footestoole.
• Matt 16:21 : 21 From that tyme foorth, began Iesus to shewe vnto his disciples, howe that he must go vnto Hierusalem, and suffer many thynges of the elders, and hye priestes, & scribes, and must be kylled, and be raysed agayne the thyrde day.
• Matt 20:18-20 : 18 Beholde, we go vp to Hierusalem, and the sonne of man shalbe betrayed vnto the chiefe priestes, and vnto the scribes, and they shall condempne hym to death: 19 And shall deliuer him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and to be scourged, and to be crucified: and the thirde day, he shall ryse agayne. 20 Then came to hym the mother of Zebedees chyldren, with her sonnes, worshyppyng hym, and desiryng a certayne thyng of hym.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 Euen as the sonne of man came, not to be ministred vnto, but to minister, and to geue his lyfe a raunsome for many.
• Matt 26:67-68 : 67 Then dyd they spyt in his face, and buffeted hym with fistes. And other smote hym on his face with the paulme of their handes, 68 Saying: prophecie vnto vs, O Christ, who is he that smote thee?
• Matt 27:27-50 : 27 Then the souldiours of the deputie toke Iesus in the common hall, and gathered vnto hym all the bande of souldiours. 28 And they stripped hym, and put on hym a skarlet robe: 29 And platted a crowne of thornes, and put vppon his head, and a reede in his right hande, and bowed the knee before hym, and mocked hym, saying: Hayle kyng of the Iewes. 30 And when they had spyt vpon hym, they toke the reede, and smote hym on the head. 31 And after that they had mocked him, they toke the robe of hym agayne, and put his owne rayment on hym, and led hym away, to crucifie hym. 32 And as they came out, they founde a man of Cyrene, named Simon: hym they compelled to beare his crosse. 33 And they came vnto the place, which is called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of dead mens skulles. 34 And gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: And when he had tasted therof, he woulde not drynke. 35 When they had crucified hym, they parted his garmentes, & did cast lottes, that it myght be fulfylled whiche was spoken by the prophete: They departed my garmentes among them, & vpon my vesture dyd they cast lottes. 36 And they sate, & watched him there. 37 And set vp ouer his head, the cause of his death written: This is Iesus, the king of the Iewes. 38 Then were there two thieues crucified with hym: one on the ryght hande, and another on the left. 39 They that passed by, reuyled hym, waggyng their heades, 40 And saying: Thou that destroyedst the temple, & buyldest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe. If thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse. 41 Lykewyse also the hye priestes, mockyng hym, with the scribes, and elders, and pharisees sayde: 42 He saued other, hym selfe can he not saue. If he be the kyng of Israel, let him nowe come downe from the crosse, and we wyll beleue hym. 43 He trusted in God, let hym delyuer hym nowe, yf he wyll haue hym: for he sayde, I am the sonne of God. 44 The thieues also which were crucified with hym, cast the same in his teeth. 45 Fro the sixth houre, was there darknesse ouer all the lande, vnto the nynth houre. 46 And about the nynth houre, Iesus cried with a loude voyce, saying: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, that is to say: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 Some of them that stode there, when they hearde that, saide: This man calleth for Elias. 48 And straightway one of them ranne, and toke a sponge, and when he had filled it full of vineger, he put it on a reede, and gaue hym to drynke. 49 Other sayde, let be, let vs see whether Elias wyll come and saue hym. 50 Iesus, when he had cryed agayne with a loude voyce, yeelded vp ye ghost.
• Mark 9:12 : 12 He aunswered, and sayde vnto them: Elias veryly when he commeth firste, restoreth all thynges: And the sonne of man, as it is written of hym, shall suffer many thynges, & be set at naught.
• Mark 9:24 : 24 And strayghtwaye the father of the childe cryed with teares, saying: Lorde I beleue, helpe thou mine vnbeliefe.
• Mark 14:36 : 36 And he sayde: Abba father, all thynges are possible vnto thee, take away this cup from me. Neuerthelesse, not that I wyll: but that thou wylt, be done.
• Luke 17:5 : 5 And the Apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase our fayth.
• Luke 23:11 : 11 And Herode with his men of warre despised him: and when he had mocked hym, he arayed hym in whyte clothing, and sent hym agayne to Pilate.
• Luke 23:35-39 : 35 And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying: He saued other men let hym saue him selfe, if he be very Christe the chosen of God. 36 The souldiours also mocked him, and came and offred him vineger, 37 And sayd: If thou be the kyng of the Iewes, saue thy selfe. 38 And a superscription was written ouer him, with letters of greke, and latin, and hebrue, This is the king of the Iewes. 39 And one of the euyll doers whiche were hanged, rayled on hym, saying: If thou be Christe, saue thy self and vs.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet hath it pleased the Lord to smite hym with infirmitie, that when he had made his soule an offeryng for sinne, he might see long lastyng seede: and this deuice of the Lorde shall prosper in his hande. 11 Of the trauayle and labour of his soule, shall he see the fruite & be satisfied: My righteous seruaunt shall with his knowledge iustifie the multitude, for he shall beare their sinnes. 12 Therfore wyll I geue hym among the great ones his part, and he shall deuide the spoyle with the mightie, because he geueth ouer his soule to death, and is reckened among the transgressours: which neuerthelesse hath taken away the sinnes of the multitude, and made intercession for the misdoers.
• John 1:29 : 29 The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde.
• John 6:40 : 40 And this is the wyll of him yt sent me: that euery one which seeth the sonne, & beleueth on him, hath euerlastyng lyfe: And I wyll rayse him vp at ye last day.
• John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham was glad to see my day: and he saw it, and reioyced.
• John 12:24 : 24 Ueryly, veryly, I say vnto you, except the wheate corne fall into the grounde, and dye, it abideth alone: If it dye, it bryngeth foorth much fruite.
• John 12:32 : 32 And I, yf I were lyft vp from the earth, wyll drawe all men vnto me.
• John 13:3 : 3 Iesus knowyng that the father had geuen all thynges into his handes, and that he was come from God, and went to God:
• John 13:31-32 : 31 Therfore, when he was gone out, Iesus sayd, Nowe is the sonne of man glorified: And God is glorified in hym. 32 Yf God be glorified in hym, God shall also glorifie hym in hym selfe, and shall strayghtway glorifie hym.
• John 17:1-4 : 1 These wordes spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and sayde: Father, the houre is come, glorifie thy sonne that thy sonne also may glorifie thee: 2 As thou hast geuen hym power ouer all fleshe, that he shoulde geue eternall life, to as many as thou hast geuen him. 3 This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent. 4 I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished ye worke, which thou gauest me to do.
• Acts 2:25-26 : 25 For Dauid speaketh of hym, I sawe the Lorde alwayes set foorth before my face: for he is on my ryght hande, that I shoulde not be moued. 26 Therfore dyd my heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad. Moreouer also my fleshe shall reste in hope,
• Acts 2:36 : 36 Therfore, let all the house of Israel know for a suretie, that God hath made that same Iesus, whom ye haue crucified, Lorde and Christe.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 And they departed from the counsell, reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.
• 1 Cor 1:7-8 : 7 So that ye are destitute of no gyft, wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christe, 8 Whiche shall also strength you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.
• Eph 2:16 : 16 And that he myght reconcile both vnto God in one body through his crosse, and slewe hatred thereby.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 Moreouer, vpon the house of Dauid & vpon the citezins of Hierusalem wyll I poure out the spirite of grace & compassion, so that they shall loke vpon me whom they haue pearsed, and they shal lamet for him as men mourne for their onely begotten sonne: yea, and be sory for him, as men are sory for their first childe.
• Heb 12:3 : 3 Consider therfore hym that endured such speakyng agaynst hym of sinners, lest you shoulde be weryed, fayntyng in your myndes.
• 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 That whiche was fro the beginning, whiche we haue heard, which we haue seene with our eyes, whiche we haue loked vpo, & our handes haue handeled of, the worde of lyfe: 2 (And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.) 3 That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.
• Jude 1:21 : 21 And kepe your selues in the loue of God, lokyng for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christe, vnto eternall lyfe.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the begynnyng and the endyng, sayth the Lorde almyghtie, which is, and which was, and which is to come.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying: I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: That thou seest, write in a booke, and sende it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.
• Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I sawe hym, I fell at his feete euen as dead: And he layde his ryght hande vpon me, saying vnto me, feare not, I am the first and the last,