Acts 1:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Vntill the day that hee was taken vp, after that hee through the holy Ghost, had giuen commaundements vnto the Apostles, whome hee had chosen:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας, ἐντειλάμενος τοῖς ἀποστόλοις διὰ Πνεύματος Ἁγιου οὓς ἐξελέξατο, ἀνελήφθη:

Transliteration

Until which hēmeras, having enteilamenos the apostolois through Pneumatos Hagiou whom exelexato, he anelēphthē:

Grammar Details

• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day
• *enteilamenos*: aorist, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having commanded/instructed
• *apostolois*: dative, masculine, plural - apostles
• *Pneumatos Hagiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - Holy Spirit
• *exelexato*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - he chose/selected
• *anelēphthē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - he was taken up

Word Meanings

• *enteilamenos*: having commanded/instructed/charged
• *exelexato*: chose/selected/elected
• *anelēphthē*: was taken up/was received up/was lifted up

Referenced Verses

• Acts 1:9 : 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they behelde, he was taken vp: for a cloude tooke him vp out of their sight.
• John 20:21 : 21 Then saide Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: as my Father sent me, so sende I you.
• John 13:18 : 18 I speake not of you all: I know whom I haue chosen: but it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift vp his heele against me.
• Acts 10:38 : 38 To wit, howe God anointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the deuill: for God was with him.
• Acts 10:40-42 : 40 Him God raysed vp the third day, and caused that he was shewed openly: 41 Not to all the people, but vnto the witnesses chosen before of God, euen to vs which did eate and drinke with him, after he arose from the dead. 42 And he commanded vs to preach vnto the people, and to testifie, that it is he that is ordained of God a iudge of quicke and dead.
• Gal 1:1 : 1 Pavl an Apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father which hath raised him from the dead)
• Eph 2:20 : 20 And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone,
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherfore he saith, Whe he asceded vp on hie, he led captiuity captiue, & gaue gifts vnto men. 9 (Nowe, in that hee ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest partes of the earth? 10 Hee that descended, is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that hee might fill all things)
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
• Heb 6:19-20 : 19 Which hope we haue, as an ancre of the soule, both sure and stedfast, and it entreth into that which is within the vaile, 20 Whither the forerunner is for vs entred in, euen Iesus that is made an hie Priest for euer after the order of Melchi-sedec.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ is not entred into ye holy places that are made with hands, which are similitudes of ye true Sanctuarie: but is entred into very heauen, to appeare now in ye sight of God for vs,
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 Which is at the right hande of God, gone into heauen, to whome the Angels, and Powers, and might are subiect.
• 2 Pet 3:2 : 2 To call to remembrance the wordes, which were tolde before of the holy Prophetes, and also the commaundement of vs the Apostles of the Lord and Sauiour.
• Rev 1:1 : 1 The reuelation of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, to shewe vnto his seruants things which must shortly be done: which he sent, and shewed by his Angel vnto his seruant Iohn,
• Rev 2:7 : 7 Let him that hath an eare, heare, what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches, To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the tree of life which is in the middes of the Paradise of God.
• Rev 2:11 : 11 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirit saith to the Churches. He that ouercommeth, shall not be hurt of the second death.
• John 16:28 : 28 I am come out from the Father, and came into the worlde: againe I leaue the worlde, and goe to the Father.
• John 17:13 : 13 And now come I to thee, and these things speake I in the worlde, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.
• John 20:17 : 17 Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and your God.
• Rev 2:29 : 29 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirite saith to the Churches.
• Rev 3:13 : 13 Let him that hath an eare, heare what ye Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
• Rev 3:16 : 16 Therefore, because thou art Luke warme, and neither colde nor hote, it will come to passe, that I shall spewe thee out of my mouth.
• Rev 3:22 : 22 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirit saieth vnto the Churches.
• Rev 21:14 : 14 And the wall of the citie had twelue foundations, and in them the Names of the Lambes twelue Apostles.
• Isa 11:2-3 : 2 And the Spirite of the Lord shall rest vpon him: the Spirite of wisedome and vnderstanding, the Spirite of counsell and strength, the Spirite of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord, 3 And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 Beholde, my seruaunt: I will stay vpon him: mine elect, in whom my soule deliteth: I haue put my Spirit vpo him: he shal bring forth iudgement to the Gentiles.
• Isa 48:16 : 16 Come neere vnto me: heare ye this: I haue not spoken it in secret from the beginning: from the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God and his Spirit hath sent me.
• Isa 59:20-21 : 20 And the Redeemer shall come vnto Zion, and vnto them that turne from iniquitie in Iaakob, saith the Lord. 21 And I will make this my couenant with them, saith the Lorde. My Spirit that is vpon thee, and my wordes, which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seede, nor out of the mouth of the seede of thy seede, saith the Lord, from hencefoorth euen for euer.
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lorde God is vpon mee, therefore hath the Lorde anoynted mee: hee hath sent mee to preache good tidings vnto the poore, to binde vp the broken hearted, to preach libertie to the captiues, and to them that are bound, the opening of the prison,
• Matt 3:16 : 16 And Iesus when hee was baptized, came straight out of the water; lo, the heaues were opened vnto him, & Iohn saw the Spirit of God descending like a doue, and lighting vpon him.
• Matt 10:1-4 : 1 And hee called his twelue disciples vnto him, and gaue them power against vncleane spirits, to cast them out, and to heale euery sickenesse, and euery disease. 2 Nowe the names of the twelue Apostles are these. The first is Simon, called Peter, and Andrewe his brother: Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother. 3 Philippe and Bartlemewe: Thomas, and Matthewe that Publicane: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, & Lebbeus whose surname was Thaddeus: 4 Simon the Cananite, and Iudas Iscariot, who also betraied him.
• Matt 12:28 : 28 But if I cast out deuils by ye Spirit of God, then is the kingdome of God come vnto you.
• Matt 28:19-20 : 19 Go therefore, & teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and the Sonne, and the holy Ghost, 20 Teaching them to obserue all things, whatsoeuer I haue commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, vntill the ende of the worlde, Amen.
• Mark 3:14-19 : 14 And hee appoynted twelue that they should be with him, and that he might send them to preache, 15 And that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuils. 16 And the first was Simon, and hee named Simon, Peter, 17 Then Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, & Iohn Iames brother (and surnamed them Boanerges, which is, the sonnes of thunder,) 18 And Andrew, and Philippe, & Bartlemew, and Matthewe, and Thomas, and Iames, the sonne of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite, 19 And Iudas Iscariot, who also betraied him, and they came home.
• Mark 6:30 : 30 And the Apostles gathered themselues together to Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
• Mark 16:15-19 : 15 And he saide vnto them, Goe ye into all the worlde, and preach the Gospel to euery creature. 16 He that shall beleeue and be baptized, shalbe saued: but he that will not beleeue, shalbe damned. 17 And these tokens shall folowe them that beleeue, In my Name they shall cast out deuils, and shall speake with newe tongues, 18 And shall take away serpents, and if they shall drinke any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their handes on the sicke, and they shall recouer. 19 So after ye Lord had spoken vnto them, he was receiued into heauen, & sate at the right hand of God.
• Luke 6:13-16 : 13 And when it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelue which also he called Apostles. 14 (Simon whome he named also Peter, and Andrewe his brother, Iames and Iohn, Philippe and Bartlemewe: 15 Matthewe and Thomas: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelous, 16 Iudas Iames brother, and Iudas Iscariot, which also was the traitour.)
• Luke 9:51 : 51 And it came to passe, when the dayes were accomplished, that he should be receiued vp, he setled himselfe fully to goe to Hierusalem,
• Luke 24:45-49 : 45 Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures, 46 And said vnto them, Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe from the dead the third day, 47 And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem. 48 Nowe ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And beholde, I doe sende the promes of my Father vpon you: but tary ye in the citie of Hierusalem, vntill ye be endued with power from an hie.
• Luke 24:51 : 51 And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.
• John 1:16 : 16 And of his fulnesse haue all we receiued, and grace for grace.
• John 3:34 : 34 For hee whome God hath sent, speaketh the woordes of God: for God giueth him not the Spirit by measure.
• John 6:62 : 62 What then if yee should see that Sonne of man ascend vp where he was before?
• John 6:70 : 70 Iesus answered them, Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?
• John 13:1 : 1 Nowe before the feast of the Passeouer, when Iesus knewe that his houre was come, that he should depart out of this world vnto the Father, forasmuch as he loued his owne which were in the world, vnto the end he loued them.
• John 13:3 : 3 Iesus knowing that the Father had giuen all things into his hands, and that he was come forth from God, and went to God,
• Acts 1:11 : 11 Which also sayde, Yee men of Galile, why stande yee gasing into heauen? This Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen, shal so come, as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.
• Acts 1:13 : 13 And when they were come in, they went vp into an vpper chamber, where abode both Peter and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrewe, Philip, and Thomas, Bartlemew, and Matthewe, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Iudas Iames brother.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches. To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid, and will giue him a white stone, and in the stone a newe name written, which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it.