Acts 20:28

Geneva Bible (1560)

Take heede therefore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers, to feede the Church of God, which hee hath purchased with that his owne blood.

📖 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 shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme, & cary them in his bosome, and shal guide them with young.
• 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Feede the flocke of God, which dependeth vpo you, caring for it not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde: 3 Not as though ye were lords ouer Gods heritage, but that yee may bee ensamples to the flocke.
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
• 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthie to take the Booke, and to open the seales thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thine heritage (which dwell solitarie in the wood) as in the middes of Carmel: let them feede in Bashan and Gilead, as in olde time.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.
• Acts 13:2 : 2 Nowe as they ministred to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the worke whereunto I haue called them.
• Acts 20:29 : 29 For I knowe this, that after my departing shall grieuous wolues enter in among you, not sparing the flocke.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:
• Eph 1:7 : 7 By whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenes of sinnes, according to his rich grace:
• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus the seruants of Iesvs Christ, to all the Saintes in Christ Iesus which are at Philippi, with the Bishops, and Deacons:
• 1 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisdome: and to an other the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit: 9 And to another is giuen faith by the same Spirit: and to another the giftes of healing, by the same Spirit: 10 And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues. 11 And all these thinges worketh one and the selfe same Spirit, distributing to euery man seuerally as he will.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinthus, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, Saintes by calling, with all that call on the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ in euery place, both their Lord, and ours:
• Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had ordeined them Elders by election in euery Church, and prayed, and fasted, they commended them to the Lorde in whome they beleeued.
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,
• 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth. 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.
• John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had dined, Iesus said to Simon Peter, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me more then these? He said vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my lambes. 16 He said to him againe the second time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? He said vnto him, Yea Lorde, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my sheepe. 17 He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.
• 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Take heede vnto thy selfe, and vnto learning: continue therein: for in doing this thou shalt both saue thy selfe, & them that heare thee.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must giue accountes, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers, 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walke in the light as he is in the light, we haue fellowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
• 1 Tim 4:14 : 14 Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the hands of the companie of the Eldership.
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
• Heb 9:12-14 : 12 Neither by the blood of goates and calues: but by his owne blood entred he in once vnto the holy place, and obteined eternall redemption for vs. 13 For if the blood of bulles and of goates, and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling them that are vncleane, sanctifieth as touching the purifying of the flesh, 14 How much more shal the blood of Christ which through the eternall Spirit offered himselfe without fault to God, purge your conscience from dead workes, to serue the liuing God?
• Heb 12:15 : 15 Take heede, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no roote of bitternes spring vp and trouble you, lest thereby many be defiled.
• Acts 20:17 : 17 Wherefore from Miletum, hee sent to Ephesus, and called the Elders of the Church.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.
• 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre. 27 But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.
• 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 Haue ye not houses to eate & to drinke in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that haue not? what shal I say to you? shall I prayse you in this? I prayse you not.
• Gal 1:13 : 13 For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,
• 1 Cor 12:28-31 : 28 And God hath ordained some in the Church: as first Apostles, secondly Prophetes, thirdly teachers, then them that doe miracles: after that, the giftes of healing, helpers, gouernours, diuersitie of tongues. 29 Are all Apostles? are all Prophetes? are all teachers? 30 Are all doers of miracles? haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interprete? 31 But desire you the best giftes, and I will yet shewe you a more excellent way.
• Col 1:14 : 14 In whome we haue redemption through his blood, that is, the forgiuenesse of sinnes,
• Col 4:17 : 17 And say to Archippus, Take heede to the ministerie, that thou hast receiued in the Lorde, that thou fulfill it.
• Eph 1:14 : 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the redemption of that libertie purchased vnto the prayse of his glory.
• Eph 4:11 : 11 Hee therefore gaue some to be Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Euangelists, and some Pastours, and Teachers,
• Zech 11:4 : 4 Thus sayeth the Lorde my God, Feede the sheepe of the slaughter.
• Matt 2:6 : 6 And thou Beth-leem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: For out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feede that my people Israel.
• Matt 16:18 : 18 And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke I will builde my Church: and ye gates of hel shal not ouercome it.
• Mark 13:9 : 9 But take ye heede to your selues: for they shall deliuer you vp to the Councils, and to the Synagogues: ye shalbe beaten, and brought before rulers and Kings for my sake, for a testimoniall vnto them.
• 2 Chr 19:6-7 : 6 And said to the iudges, Take heede what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements of man, but of the Lorde, and he will be with you in the cause and iudgement. 7 Wherefore nowe let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you: take heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor receiuing of reward.
• Ps 74:2 : 2 Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
• Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds. 71 Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel. 72 So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.
• Prov 10:21 : 21 The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.
• Song 1:7-8 : 7 Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions? 8 If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet the Lord would breake him, and make him subiect to infirmities: when hee shall make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede and shall prolong his dayes, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I giue him a portion with the great, and he shall deuide the spoyle with the strong, because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he was counted with the transgressers, & he bare the sinne of many, and prayed for the trespassers.
• Isa 63:11 : 11 Then he remembred the olde time of Moses and his people, saying, Where is hee that brought them vp out of the Sea with the shepheard of his sheepe? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
• Jer 3:15 : 15 And I will giue you pastours according to mine heart, which shal feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not heare this, my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.
• Jer 13:20 : 20 Lift vp your eyes and beholde them that come fro the North: where is the flocke that was giuen thee, euen thy beautifull flocke?
• Jer 31:10 : 10 Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.
• Ezek 34:3 : 3 Yee eate the fat, and yee clothe you with the wooll: yee kill them that are fed, but ye feede not the sheepe.
• Ezek 34:31 : 31 And yee my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.
• Mic 5:4 : 4 And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, and in the maiestie of the Name of the Lord his God, & they shal dwel still: for now shal he be magnified vnto the ends of the world.