Acts 18:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

And when they resisted and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, & saide vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head: I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the Gentiles.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀντιτασσομένων δὲ αὐτῶν, καὶ βλασφημούντων, ἐκτιναξάμενος τὰ ἱμάτια, εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς, Τὸ αἷμα ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν· καθαρὸς ἐγώ: ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν εἰς τὰ Ἔθνη πορεύσομαι.

Transliteration

Antitassomenōn de autōn, and blasphēmountōn, ektinaxamenos ta himatia, eipen pros autous, The haima hymōn epi tēn kephalēn hymōn; katharos egō: apo tou nyn eis ta Ethnē poreusomai.

Grammar Details

• *Antitassomenōn*: present middle/passive participle, genitive plural - opposing
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *autōn*: genitive plural pronoun - they/them
• *blasphēmountōn*: present active participle, genitive plural - blaspheming
• *ektinaxamenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular - having shaken off
• *ta himatia*: article + accusative neuter plural - the garments/clothes
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he said
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward
• *autous*: accusative plural pronoun - them
• *haima*: nominative neuter singular - blood
• *hymōn*: genitive plural pronoun - your
• *epi*: preposition with accusative - upon
• *tēn kephalēn*: article + accusative feminine singular - the head
• *katharos*: nominative masculine singular adjective - clean/pure
• *egō*: nominative singular pronoun - I
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *tou nyn*: article + adverb - the now/present time
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - to/unto
• *ta Ethnē*: article + accusative neuter plural - the Gentiles/nations
• *poreusomai*: future middle indicative, 1st person singular - I will go

Word Meanings

• *Antitassomenōn*: opposing/resisting/setting themselves against
• *blasphēmountōn*: blaspheming/speaking evil/slandering
• *ektinaxamenos*: having shaken off/shaking out
• *ta himatia*: garments/clothes/cloaks
• *haima hymōn epi tēn kephalēn hymōn*: your blood upon your head (idiomatic: responsibility for your fate is on yourselves)
• *katharos*: clean/pure/innocent
• *ta Ethnē*: the Gentiles/the nations/the peoples

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 33:4 : 4 Then hee that heareth the sounde of the trumpet, and will not bee warned, if the sworde come, and take him away, his blood shall be vpon his owne head.
• 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 Then said Dauid vnto him, Thy blood be vpon thine owne head: for thine owne mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I haue slaine the Lords Anoynted.
• Ezek 18:13 : 13 Or hath giuen forth vpon vsurie, or hath taken increase, shal he liue? he shal not liue: seeing he hath done all these abominations, he shal die the death, and his blood shall be vpon him.
• Neh 5:13 : 13 So I shooke my lappe, and said, So let God shake out euery man that wil not perfourme this promise from his house, & from his labour: euen thus let him be shaken out, & emptied; all the Cogregation said, Amen, & praised the Lord: and the people did according to this promes.
• Acts 13:51 : 51 But they shooke off the dust of their feete against them, and came vnto Iconium.
• Ezek 33:8-9 : 8 When I shall say vnto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt die the death, if thou doest not speake, and admonish the wicked of his way, that wicked man shall die for his iniquitie, but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Neuerthelesse, If thou warne the wicked of his way, to turne from it, if he doe not turne from his way, he shall die for his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
• Ezek 3:18-19 : 18 When I shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest not him warning, nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his wicked way, that he may liue, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie: but his blood will I require at thine hande. 19 Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
• Lev 20:9 : 9 If there be any that curseth his father or his mother, he shall die the death: seeing hee hath cursed his father and his mother, his blood shalbe vpon him.
• Lev 20:11-12 : 11 And the man that lyeth with his fathers wife, because hee hath vncouered his fathers shame, they shall both dye: their blood shalbe vpon them. 12 Also the man that lyeth with his daughter in lawe, they both shall dye the death, they haue wrought abomination, their blood shalbe vpon them.
• Rom 11:11-15 : 11 I demaund then, Haue they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid: but through their fall, saluation commeth vnto the Gentiles, to prouoke them to follow them. 12 Wherefore if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their aboundance be? 13 For in that I speake to you Gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of ye Gentiles, I magnifie mine office, 14 To trie if by any meanes I might prouoke them of my flesh to follow them, and might saue some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiuing be, but life from the dead?
• 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For brethren, ye are become folowers of the Churches of God, which in Iudea are in Christ Iesus, because ye haue also suffred the same things of your owne countrey men, euen as they haue of the Iewes, 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men, 16 And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.
• 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Lay handes suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other mens sinnes: keepe thy selfe pure.
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 Instructing them with meekenesse that are contrary minded, prouing if God at any time will giue them repentance, that they may acknowledge the trueth,
• Jas 2:6-7 : 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates? 7 Doe nor they blaspheme the worthie Name after which yee be named?
• 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,
• 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified.
• Matt 8:11 : 11 But I say vnto you, that many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit downe with Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, in the kingdome of heauen.
• Matt 10:14 : 14 And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare your woordes, when yee depart out of that house, or that citie, shake off the dust of your feete.
• Matt 21:43 : 43 Therefore say I vnto you, The kingdome of God shalbe taken from you, and shalbe giuen to a nation, which shall bring foorth the fruites thereof.
• Matt 22:10 : 10 So those seruantes went out into the hie wayes, and gathered together all that euer they found, both good and bad: so the wedding was furnished with ghestes.
• Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.
• Luke 9:5 : 5 And howe many so euer will not receiue you, when ye goe out of that citie, shake off the very dust from your feete for a testimonie against them.
• Luke 10:10-11 : 10 But into whatsoeuer citie ye shall enter, if they will not receiue you, goe your wayes out into the streetes of the same, and say, 11 Euen the very dust, which cleaueth on vs of your citie, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding knowe this, that the kingdome of God was come neere vnto you.
• Luke 22:65 : 65 And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.
• Acts 13:45-47 : 45 But when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas spake boldly, and sayde, It was necessarie that the woorde of God shoulde first haue beene spoken vnto you: but seeing yee put it from you, and iudge your selues vnworthie of euerlasting life, loe, we turne to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.
• Acts 19:9-9 : 9 But when certaine were hardened, and disobeyed, speaking euill of the way of God before the multitude, hee departed from them, and separated the disciples, and disputed dayly in the schole of one Tyrannus. 10 And this was done by the space of two yeeres, so that all they which dwelt in Asia, heard the word of ye Lord Iesus, both Iewes & Grecians.
• Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Wherefore I take you to recorde this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 27 For I haue kept nothing backe, but haue shewed you all the counsell of God.
• Acts 26:11 : 11 And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, euen vnto strange cities.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, & throughout all the coasts of Iudea, & then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and doe workes worthy amendement of life.
• Acts 28:28 : 28 Be it knowen therefore vnto you, that this saluation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they shall heare it.
• Rom 3:29 : 29 God, is he the God of the Iewes onely, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.
• Rom 9:25-26 : 25 As he sayth also in Osee, I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloued, which was not beloued. 26 And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.
• Rom 9:30-33 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which folowed not righteousnes, haue attained vnto righteousnes, euen the righteousnes which is of faith. 31 But Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnes, could not arteine vnto the Law of righteousnes. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the workes of the Lawe: for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone, 33 As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.
• Rom 10:12-13 : 12 For there is no difference betweene the Iewe and the Grecian: for he that is Lorde ouer all, is rich vnto all, that call on him. 13 For whosoeuer shall call vpon the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.