Acts 20:28

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Take hede therfore vnto youre selues, and to all the flocke, amonge the which the holy goost hath set you to be Bishoppes, to fede the congregacion of God, which he hath purchaced thorow his owne bloude.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Προσέχετε οὖν ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ παντὶ τῷ ποιμνίῳ, ἐν ᾧ ὑμᾶς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον ἔθετο ἐπισκόπους, ποιμαίνειν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἣν περιεποιήσατο διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου αἵματος.

Transliteration

Prosechete therefore to-yourselves, and to-all the poimniō, in which you the Pneuma the Hagion etheto episkopous, poimainein the ekklēsian of-the Theou, which periepoiēsato through the idiou haimatos.

Grammar Details

• *Prosechete*: present imperative, active, 2nd person plural - take heed
• *poimniō*: dative, neuter, singular - flock
• *Pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: nominative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *etheto*: aorist indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - appointed
• *episkopous*: accusative, masculine, plural - overseers/bishops
• *poimainein*: present infinitive, active - to shepherd
• *ekklēsian*: accusative, feminine, singular - church/assembly
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *periepoiēsato*: aorist indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - purchased/acquired
• *idiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - own/his own
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of blood

Word Meanings

• *Prosechete*: take heed/be on guard/pay attention
• *poimniō*: flock/fold
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/spirit
• *Hagion*: Holy/sacred
• *etheto*: appointed/made/placed
• *episkopous*: overseers/bishops/guardians
• *poimainein*: to shepherd/tend/feed
• *ekklēsian*: church/assembly/congregation
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *periepoiēsato*: purchased/acquired/obtained
• *idiou*: own/his own/particular
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed

Referenced Verses

• Isa 40:11 : 11 He shal fede his flock like an hirdman. He shal gather the lambes together with his arme, and carie them in his bosome, & shal kindly intreate those that beare yonge.
• 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde: 3 not as though ye were lordes ouer the parishes, but that ye be an ensample to the flocke:
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach:
• 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The Elders that rule well, are worthy of double honoure, most specially they which laboure in the worde & in teachinge.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 and they songe a newe songe saynge: thou art worthy to take the boke & to ope the seales therof: for thou wast kylled, and hast redemed vs by thy bloud, out of all kynreddes, and toges, and people, and nacions,
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Therfore fede thy people with thy rodde, the flocke of thine heretage which dwell desolate in the wodde: that they maye be fedde vpon the mount of Charmel, Basan & Galaad as afore tyme.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 Feare not thou litle flocke, for it is youre fathers pleasure to geue you the kyngdome.
• Acts 13:2 : 2 As they serued ye LORDE, and fasted, the holy goost sayde: Separate me out Barnabas and Saul for the worke, where vnto I haue called them.
• Acts 20:29 : 29 For this I knowe, that after my departinge there shal enter in amonge you greuous wolues, which shal not spare the flocke.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Be not ye an occasion of fallinge, nether to the Iewes, ner to the Gentyles, ner to the congregacion of God,
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude (namely) the forgeuenes of synnes, acordynge to ye riches of his grace,
• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus the seruauntes of Iesu Christ. Vnto all the sayntes in Iesu Christ, which are at Philippos, with the Bisshoppes and mynisters.
• 1 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 To one is geuen thorow the sprete the vtteraunce of wissdome: to another is geuen the vtteraunce of knowlege acordinge to the same sprete: 9 to another, faith in the same sprete: to another, the giftes of healinge in the same sprete: 10 to another, power to do miracles: to another, prophecienge: to another, iudgment to discerne spretes: to another, dyuerse tunges: to another, the interpretacion of tunges. 11 These all doth ye same onely sprete worke, and distributeth vnto euery man, acordinge as he will.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am ye leest of the Apostles, which am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the congregacion of God.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 vnto the congregacion off God which is at Corinthum, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, sayntes by callinge, with all them that call vpon the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, in euery place both off theirs and oures.
• Acts 14:23 : 23 And wha they had ordeyned them Elders by eleccion thorow all the congregacions, they prayed and fasted, and comended them vnto the LORDE, on whom they beleued.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre:
• 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 but yf I tary loge, that then thou mayest yet haue knowlege, how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in Gods house, which is the congregacion of the lyuynge God, the piler and grounde of trueth: 16 and without naye, greate is that mystery of godlynes. God was shewed in the flesh: was iustified in the sprete: was sene of angels: was preached vnto the Heythen: was beleued on in the worlde: was receaued vp in glory.
• John 21:15-17 : 15 Now wha they had dyned, Iesus sayde vnto Symon Peter: Symo Iohana, louest thou me more then these do? He sayde vnto him: Yee LORDE, thou knowest yt I loue the. He sayde vnto him: Fede my labes. 16 He sayde vnto him agayne the seconde tyme: Symo Iohana, louest thou me? He sayde vnto him: Yee LORDE, thou knowest, yt I loue ye. He sayde vnto him: Fede my shepe. 17 He saide vnto him ye thirde tyme: Symon Iohana, louest thou me? Peter was sory, because he sayde vnto him, louest thou me? And he sayde vnto him: LORDE, thou knowest all thinges, thou knowest, that I loue ye. Iesus sayde vnto him: Fede my shepe.
• 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Take hede vnto thy selfe, and to learnynge, cotynue in these thinges. For yf thou so do, thou shalt saue thy selfe, and them that heare the.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that haue the ouersighte off you, and submytte youre selues vnto them: for they watch for youre soules, euen as they that must geue accoptes therfore, that they maye do it with ioye, and not with grefe: for that is an vnprofitable thinge for you.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 and knowe, that ye were not redemed wt corruptible syluer and golde, from youre vayne conuersacion (which ye receaued by the tradicios of the fathers) 19 but with the precious bloude of Christ, as of an innocet and vndefyled lambe,
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are that chosen generacion, that kyngly presthode, that holy nacion, that peculier people, yt ye shulde shewe the vertues of him, which hath called you out of darknesse in to his maruelous lighte:
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as shepe goinge astraye, but now are ye turned vnto the shepherde and Bisshoppe of youre soules.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But yf we walke in lighte, euen as he is in lighte, then haue we fellishippe together, and the bloude of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all synne.
• 1 Tim 4:14 : 14 Be not necligent in the gifte that is geuen the thorow prophecye, with layege on of the handes of the Elders.
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?)
• Heb 9:12-14 : 12 nether by the bloude of goates or calues: but by his owne bloude entred he once for all in to the holy place, and hath founde eternall redempcion. 13 For yff the bloude off oxen and off goates, and the asshes off the cowe whan it is sprenkled, haloweth the vncleane as touchynge the purificacion of the flesh, 14 How moch more shal the bloude of Christ (which thorow the eternall sprete offred him selfe without spot vnto God) pourge oure conscience from deed workes, for to serue the lyuynge God?
• Heb 12:15 : 15 ad loke well, that no ma be destitute of the grace of God, lest there sprynge vp eny bytter rote, and cause disquyetnes, and therby many be defyled:
• Acts 20:17 : 17 But from Mileton he sent vnto Ephesus, and called for the Elders of the congregacion.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 But take hede vnto youre selues, that yor hertes be not ouerlade with excesse of eatinge and with dronkennes, and with takinge of thought for lyuynge, and so this daye come vpo you vnawares.
• 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therfore so runne, not as at an vncertayne thinge: So fighte I, not as one yt beateth ye ayre: 27 but I tame my body, and brynge it in to subieccion, lest whan I preach vnto other: I my selfe be a cast awaye.
• 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 Or despyse ye ye cogregacion of God, and shame them that haue not? What shal I saye vnto you? Shal I prayse you? in this prayse I you not.
• Gal 1:13 : 13 For ye haue herde of my conuersacion afore tyme in the Ieweshippe, how that beyode measure I persecuted the cogregacion of God, and spoyled it,
• 1 Cor 12:28-31 : 28 And God hath ordeyned in the congregacion, first the Apostles, secodly prophetes, thirdly teachers, then doers of miracles, after that the giftes of healinge, helpers, gouerners, dyuerse tunges. 29 Are they all Apostles? Are they all prophetes? Are they all teachers? Are they all doers of miracles? 30 Haue they all the giftes of healinge? Speake they all with tunges? Can they all interprete? 31 But covet ye the best giftes. And yet shewe I you a more excellent waye.
• Col 1:14 : 14 ( in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude, namely, the forgeuenes of synnes.)
• Col 4:17 : 17 And saye to Archippus: Take hede to the office which thou hast receaued in the LORDE, that thou fulfyll it.
• Eph 1:14 : 14 which is the ernest of oure inheritaunce to oure redempcion, that we mighte be his owne to the prayse off his glory.
• Eph 4:11 : 11 And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers,
• Zech 11:4 : 4 Thus sayeth the LORDE my God: Fede the shepe of ye slaughter,
• Matt 2:6 : 6 And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury, art not the leest amonge the Princes of Iuda. For out of ye shall come vnto me the captayne, that shall gouerne my people Israel.
• Matt 16:18 : 18 And I saie to ye: Thou art Peter, & vpo this rocke wil I builde my cogregacion: and ye gates of hell shal not preuayle agaynst it.
• Mark 13:9 : 9 But take ye hede to youre selues. For they shal delyuer you vp to the councels, and synagoges, and ye shal be beaten, and shalbe brought before prynces and kynges for my namessake, for a wytnesse vnto the.
• 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 And sayde vnto the Iudges: Take hede what ye do: for ye execute not the iudgment of man, but of the LORDE, and he is with you in iudgmet: 7 therfore let the feare of the LORDE be with you, and bewarre, and do it: for with the LORDE oure God there is no vnrighteousnes, ner respecte of personnes, ner acceptinge of giftes.
• Ps 74:2 : 2 O thynke vpon thy congregacion, whom thou hast purchased fro the begynnynge:
• Ps 78:70-72 : 70 And there he buylded his temple on hye, and layed ye foundacion of it like ye grounde, that it might perpetually endure. 71 He chose Dauid also his seruaut, and toke him awaye from the shepe foldes. 72 As he was folowinge the yowes greate with yonge, he toke him, that he might fede Iacob his people, and Israel his enheritaunce. So he fed them with a faithfull and true hert, and ruled them with all ye diligence of his power.
• Prov 10:21 : 21 The lippes of the rightuous fede a whole multitude, but fooles shal dye in their owne foly.
• Song 1:7-8 : 7 Tell me (o thou whom my soule loueth) where thou fedest, where thou restest at the noone daye: lest I go wronge, and come vnto the flockes of thy companyons, 8 Yf thou knowe not yi self (o thou fayrest amoge women) tha go yi waye forth after ye fotesteppes of the shepe, as though thou woldest fede yi goates besyde ye shepherdes tentes.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet hath it pleased ye LORDE to smyte him with infirmite, that when he had made his soule an offeringe for synne, he might se a loge lastinge sede. And this device of the LORDE shal prospere in his honde. 11 With trauayle and laboure of his soule, shal he optayne greate riches. My rightuous seruaunt shall with his wisdome iustifie & delyuer the multitude, for he shal beare awaye their synnes. 12 Therfore wil I geue him the multitude for his parte, & he shal deuyde the stroge spoyle because he shal geue ouer his soule to death, & shalbe rekened amonge the transgressours, which neuertheles shal take awaye ye synnes of the multitude, and make intercession for the my?doers.
• Isa 63:11 : 11 Yet remebred he the olde tyme, of Moses & his people: How he brought them from the water of the see, as a shepherde doth with his shepe: how he had geuen his holy sprete amonge them:
• Jer 3:15 : 15 and will geue you hyrdme after myne owne mynde, which shal fede you with lernynge and wy?dome.
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But yf ye wil not heare me, that geue you secrete warnynge, I will mourne fro my whole herte for youre stubburnesse. Piteously will I wepe, and the teares shall gushe out of myne eyes. For the LORDES flocke shal be caried awaye captiue.
• Jer 13:20 : 20 Lift vp youre eyes, and beholde the, that come from the North: Like a fat flocke shal they fall vpon the.
• Jer 31:10 : 10 Heare the worde of the LORDE (o ye Gentiles) preach in the Iles, that lie farre of, and saye: he that hath scatred Israel, shall gather him together agayne, and shall kepe him as a shepherde doth his flocke.
• Ezek 34:3 : 3 Ye haue eaten vp the fatte, ye haue clothed you with the woll: the best fedde haue ye slayne, but ye flocke haue ye not norished:
• Ezek 34:31 : 31 Ye men are my flocke, ye are the shepe of my pasture: and I am youre God, saieth the LORDE God.
• Mic 5:4 : 4 He shal stonde fast, and geue fode in the strength of the LORDE, and in the victory of the name of ye LORDE his God: and when they be conuerted, he shall be magnified vnto the farthest partes of the worlde.