Acts 26:22

Geneva Bible (1560)

Neuertheles, I obteined helpe of God, and continue vnto this day, witnessing both to small and to great, saying none other things, then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπικουρίας οὖν τυχὼν τῆς παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἄχρι τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης ἕστηκα, μαρτυρόμενος μικρῷ τε καὶ μεγάλῳ, οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς λέγων ὧν τε οἱ προφῆται ἐλάλησαν μελλόντων γίνεσθαι καὶ Μωσῆς:

Transliteration

Epikourias oun having tychōn of the from the Theou, until the hēmeras this tautēs I hestēka, martyromenos to small te and to great, nothing ektos legōn of which things te the prophētai elalēsan mellontōn to ginesthai and Mōsēs:

Grammar Details

• *Epikourias*: genitive, feminine, singular - help/aid
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *tychōn*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having obtained
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - God
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day
• *tautēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - this
• *hestēka*: perfect active, 1st singular - I stand/have stood
• *martyromenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - testifying
• *te*: conjunction - and/both
• *ektos*: adverb - outside/beyond
• *legōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *prophētai*: nominative, masculine, plural - prophets
• *elalēsan*: aorist active, 3rd plural - they spoke
• *mellontōn*: present active participle, genitive, neuter, plural - going to be
• *ginesthai*: present middle infinitive - to happen/occur
• *Mōsēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - Moses

Word Meanings

• *Epikourias*: help/aid/assistance
• *tychōn*: having obtained/having received/having found
• *hestēka*: I stand/have stood/I continue
• *martyromenos*: testifying/witnessing/giving evidence
• *ektos*: outside/beyond/except
• *legōn*: saying/speaking/telling
• *prophētai*: prophets/seers
• *elalēsan*: they spoke/they said
• *mellontōn*: going to be/about to be/future things
• *ginesthai*: to happen/occur/come to pass

Referenced Verses

• Acts 24:14 : 14 But this I confesse vnto thee, that after the way (which they call heresie) so worship I the God of my fathers, beleeuing all things which are written in the Lawe and the Prophets,
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And he began at Moses, & at all the Prophets, and interpreted vnto them in all the Scriptures the things which were written of him.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he saide vnto them, These are the wordes, which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you, that all must be fulfilled which are written of me in the Lawe of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalmes.
• John 5:46 : 46 For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him also giue all the Prophets witnesse, that through his Name all that beleeue in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes.
• Ps 118:10-13 : 10 All nations haue compassed me: but in the Name of the Lord shall I destroy them. 11 They haue compassed mee, yea, they haue compassed mee: but in the Name of the Lorde I shall destroy them. 12 They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them. 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but the Lord hath holpen me.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sung the song of Moses the seruant of God, & the song of the Lambe, saying, Great and marueilous are thy workes, Lord God almightie: iust and true are thy wayes, King of Saints.
• Acts 3:21-24 : 21 Whome the heauen must containe vntill the time that all thinges be restored, which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses said vnto the Fathers, The Lord your God shall raise vp vnto you a Prophet, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: ye shal heare him in all things, whatsoeuer he shal say vnto you. 23 For it shalbe that euery person which shall not heare that Prophet, shall be destroyed out of the people. 24 Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.
• Luke 24:46 : 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,
• John 1:17 : 17 For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.
• John 1:45 : 45 Philippe founde Nathanael, and saide vnto him, Wee haue founde him of whom Moses did write in the Lawe, and the Prophetes, Iesus that sonne of Ioseph, that was of Nazareth.
• John 3:14-15 : 14 And as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernesse, so must that Sonne of man be lift vp, 15 That whosoeuer beleeueth in him, shoulde not perish, but haue eternall life.
• John 5:39 : 39 Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.
• Acts 26:6 : 6 And now I stand and am accused for the hope of the promes made of God vnto our fathers.
• Acts 26:17 : 17 Deliuering thee from this people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee,
• Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many vnto him into his lodging, to whom he expounded testifying the kingdome of God, and persuading them those things that concerne Iesus, both out of the Lawe of Moses, and out of the Prophets, from morning to night.
• Rom 3:21 : 21 But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For brethren, we woulde not haue you ignorant of our affliction, which came vnto vs in Asia, howe we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, euen of life. 9 Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead. 10 Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer vs: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliuer vs,
• Ps 124:1-3 : 1 A song of degrees, or Psalme of Dauid. If the Lord had not bene on our side, (may Israel now say) 2 If the Lord had not bene on our side, when men rose vp against vs, 3 They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.
• Ps 124:8 : 8 Our helpe is in the Name of the Lorde, which hath made heauen and earth.
• Matt 17:4-5 : 4 Then answered Peter, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: if thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloude shadowed them: and beholde, there came a voyce out of the cloude, saying, This is that my beloued Sonne, in whom I am wel pleased: heare him.
• Luke 16:29-31 : 29 Abraham said vnto him, They haue Moses and the Prophets: let them heare them. 30 And he sayde, Nay, father Abraham: but if one came vnto them from the dead, they will amend their liues. 31 Then he saide vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rise from the dead againe.
• 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel tooke a stone and pitched it betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name thereof, Eben-ezer, and he sayd, Hitherto hath the Lord holpen vs.
• Ezra 8:31 : 31 Then we departed from the Riuer of Ahauah on the twelft day of the first moneth, to go vnto Ierusalem, & the hand of our God was vpon vs, and deliuered vs from the hand of the enemie, and of such as layde waite by the way.
• Ps 18:47 : 47 It is God that giueth me power to auenge me, and subdueth the people vnder me.
• Ps 66:12 : 12 Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.
• Acts 14:19-20 : 19 Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead. 20 Howbeit, as the disciples stoode rounde about him, hee arose vp, and came into the citie, and the next day hee departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
• Acts 16:25-26 : 25 Nowe at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung Psalmes vnto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken: and by and by all the doores opened, and euery mans bands were loosed.
• Acts 18:9-9 : 9 Then saide the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare not, but speake, and holde not thy peace. 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall lay handes on thee to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this citie.
• Acts 20:20-27 : 20 And how I kept backe nothing that was profitable, but haue shewed you, and taught you openly and throughout euery house, 21 Witnessing both to the Iewes, and to the Grecians the repentance towarde God, and faith toward our Lord Iesus Christ. 22 And nowe beholde, I goe bound in the Spirit vnto Hierusalem, and know not what things shall come vnto me there, 23 Saue that ye holy Ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying, that bondes and afflictions abide me. 24 But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lorde Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God. 25 And now behold, I know that henceforth ye all, through whome I haue gone preaching the kingdome of God, shall see my face no more. 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 21:31-33 : 31 But as they went about to kill him, tydings came vnto the chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem was on an vproare. 32 Who immediately tooke souldiers & Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they sawe the chiefe Captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul. 33 Then the chiefe Captaine came neere and tooke him, and commaunded him to be bound with two chaines, and demaunded who he was, and what he had done.
• Acts 23:10-11 : 10 And when there was a great dissension, the chiefe captaine, fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commaunded the souldiers to go downe, and take him from among them, and to bring him into the castel. 11 Nowe the night folowing, the Lord stoode by him, and saide, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified of mee in Hierusalem, so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome.
• Acts 23:16-22 : 16 But when Pauls sisters sonne heard of their laying awaite, he went, and entred into the castel, and tolde Paul. 17 And Paul called one of the Centurions vnto him, and said, Take this yong man hence vnto the chiefe captaine: for he hath a certaine thing to shewe him. 18 So hee tooke him, and brought him to the chiefe captaine, and saide, Paul the prisoner called mee vnto him, and prayed mee to bring this yong man vnto thee, which hath some thing to say vnto thee. 19 Then the chiefe captaine tooke him by the hande, and went apart with him alone, and asked him, What hast thou to shewe me? 20 And he saide, The Iewes haue conspired to desire thee, that thou wouldest bring foorth Paul to morow into the Council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly: 21 But let them not perswade thee: for there lie in waite for him of them, more then fourtie men, which haue bound themselues with a curse, that they will neither eate nor drinke, till they haue killed him: and nowe are they readie, and waite for thy promes. 22 The chiefe captaine then let the yong man depart, after hee had charged him to vtter it to no man, that he had shewed him these things.
• 2 Tim 3:11 : 11 Persecutions, and afflictions which came vnto me at Antiochia, at Iconium, and at Lystri, which persecutions I suffered: but from them all the Lord deliuered me.
• 2 Tim 4:17-18 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully beleeued, and that al the Gentiles should heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lorde will deliuer me from euery euil worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome: to whome be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
• Rev 11:18 : 18 And the Gentiles were angrie, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they shoulde be iudged, and that thou shouldest giue reward vnto thy seruants the Prophets, and to the Saintes, and to them that feare thy Name, to small and great, and shouldest destroy them, which destroy the earth.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, both great & small stand before God: and the bookes were opened, & another booke was opened, which is the booke of life, & the dead were iudged of those thinges, which were written in the bookes, according to their woorkes.