Hebrews 12:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Looking vnto Iesus the authour and finisher of our faith, who for the ioy that was set before him, endured the crosse, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀφορῶντες εἰς τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἀρχηγὸν καὶ τελειωτὴν Ἰησοῦν· ὃς ἀντὶ τῆς προκειμένης αὐτῷ χαρᾶς ὑπέμεινεν σταυρὸν, αἰσχύνης καταφρονήσας, ἐν δεξιᾷ τε τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ Θεοῦ εκάθισεν.

Transliteration

Aphorōntes unto the of pisteōs archēgon and teleiōtēn Iēsoun; who anti the prokeimenēs to him charas hypemeinen stauron, aischynēs kataphronēsas, in right and of the thronou of Theou ekathisen.

Grammar Details

• *Aphorōntes*: participle, present active, nominative, plural, masculine - looking away/fixing eyes
• *pisteōs*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of faith
• *archēgon*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - author/founder/leader
• *teleiōtēn*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - perfecter/completer/finisher
• *Iēsoun*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - Jesus
• *anti*: preposition + genitive - instead of/for/in place of
• *prokeimenēs*: participle, present middle/passive, genitive, singular, feminine - set before/lying before
• *charas*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of joy
• *hypemeinen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - endured/withstood
• *stauron*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - cross
• *aischynēs*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of shame
• *kataphronēsas*: participle, aorist active, nominative, singular, masculine - having despised/disregarded
• *thronou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of throne
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of God
• *ekathisen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - sat down

Word Meanings

• *Aphorōntes*: looking away/fixing eyes upon/gazing at
• *archēgon*: author/founder/leader/originator/prince
• *teleiōtēn*: perfecter/completer/finisher
• *anti*: instead of/for/in place of/because of
• *kataphronēsas*: having despised/disregarded/thought little of/shown contempt for

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:7 : 7 Therefore I will looke vnto the Lorde: I will waite for God my Sauiour: my God will heare me.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightnes of the glory, and the ingraued forme of his person, and bearing vp all things by his mightie worde, hath by himselfe purged our sinnes, and sitteth at the right hand of the Maiestie in the highest places,
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.
• Titus 2:13-14 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of that glorie of that mightie God, and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, 14 Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust for the vniust, that he might bring vs to God, and was put to death concerning the flesh, but was quickened by the spirit.
• 1 Pet 2:23-24 : 23 Who when hee was reuiled, reuiled not againe: when hee suffered, hee threatned not, but comitted it to him that iudgeth righteously. 24 Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sinne, should liue in righteousnesse: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Heb 9:28 : 28 So Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many, and vnto them that looke for him, shall he appeare the second time without sinne vnto saluation.
• Phil 3:20 : 20 But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,
• Luke 24:26 : 26 Ought not Christ to haue suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Acts 5:31 : 31 Him hath God lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenes of sinnes.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soule troubled: and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therefore came I vnto this houre. 28 Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voyce from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and will glorifie it againe.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
• Ps 138:8 : 8 The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lorde, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.
• Phil 1:6 : 6 And I am persuaded of this same thing, that he that hath begunne this good worke in you, wil perfourme it vntill the day of Iesus Christ,
• Phil 2:8-9 : 8 He humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen the death of the Crosse. 9 Wherefore God hath also highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name aboue euery name, 10 That at the Name of Iesus shoulde euery knee bowe, both of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth, 11 And that euery tongue shoulde confesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord, vnto the glory of God the Father.
• Heb 5:9 : 9 And being consecrate, was made the authour of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey him:
• Heb 13:13 : 13 Let vs goe foorth to him therefore out of the campe, bearing his reproch.
• 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.
• Rev 2:8 : 8 And vnto the Angel of the Church of the Smyrnians write, These things saith he that is first, and last, which was dead and is aliue.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 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. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
• 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Searching when or what time the Spirite which testified before of Christ which was in them, shoulde declare the sufferings that should come vnto Christ, and the glorie that shoulde followe.
• Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Wherefore when he commeth into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not: but a body hast thou ordeined me. 6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then I sayd, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe) 9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second. 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made. 11 And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring, and oft times offreth one maner of offring, which can neuer take away sinnes: 12 But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinnes, sitteth for euer at the right hand of God,
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For with one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified.
• Heb 10:33 : 33 Partly while yee were made a gazing stocke both by reproches & afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro.
• Heb 11:36 : 36 And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreouer by bondes and prisonment.
• Heb 7:19 : 19 For the Law made nothing perfite, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfite, whereby we drawe neere vnto God.
• Heb 8:1 : 1 Nowe of the things which we haue spoken, this is the summe, that wee haue such an hie Priest, that sitteth at the right hand of the throne of the Maiestie in heauens,
• Heb 1:13 : 13 Vnto which also of the Angels saide he at any time, Sit at my right hand, til I make thine enemies thy footestoole?
• Heb 2:7-9 : 7 Thou madest him a litle inferiour to ye Angels: thou crownedst him with glory & honour, and hast set him aboue the workes of thine hands. 8 Thou hast put all things in subiection vnder his feete; in that he hath put all things in subiection vnder him, he left nothing that should not be subiect vnto him. But we yet see not all things subdued vnto him, 9 But we see Iesus crowned with glory and honour, which was made litle inferiour to the Angels, through the suffering of death, that by Gods grace he might taste death for all men. 10 For it became him, for whome are all these thinges, and by whome are all these things, seeing that hee brought many children vnto glory, that he should consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions.
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 For hence foorth is laide vp for me the crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lorde the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me onely, but vnto all them also that loue that his appearing.
• Isa 8:17 : 17 Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.
• Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe vnto them that goe downe into Egypt for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy one of Israel, nor seeke vnto the Lord.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Looke vnto me, and ye shall be saued: all the endes of the earth shall be saued: for I am God, and there is none other.
• Isa 49:6-7 : 6 And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation vnto the ende of the worlde. 7 Thus sayeth the Lorde the redeemer of Israel, and his Holie one, to him that is despised in soule, to a nation that is abhorred, to a seruaunt of rulers, Kinges shall see, and arise, and princes shall worship, because of the Lord, that is faithfull: and ye Holy one of Israel, which hath chosen thee.
• Isa 50:6-7 : 6 I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.
• Ps 16:9-9 : 9 Wherefore mine heart is glad and my tongue reioyceth: my flesh also doeth rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy: and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.
• Ps 22:6-8 : 6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people. 7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying, 8 He trusted in the Lorde, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
• Ps 69:19-20 : 19 Thou hast knowen my reproofe and my shame, and my dishonour: all mine aduersaries are before thee. 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.
• Ps 110:1 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. The Lord said vnto my Lorde, Sit thou at my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.
• Matt 16:21 : 21 From that time foorth Iesus beganne to shewe vnto his disciples, that he must goe vnto Hierusalem, and suffer many thinges of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and Scribes, and be slaine, and be raised againe the thirde day.
• Matt 20:18-20 : 18 Beholde, wee goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall bee deliuered vnto the chiefe priestes, and vnto the Scribes, and they shal condemne him to death, 19 And shall deliuer him to the Gentiles, to mocke, and to scourge, and to crucifie him, but the thrde day he shall rise againe. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedeus children with her sonnes, worshipping him, and desiring a certaine thing of him.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.
• Matt 26:67-68 : 67 Then spet they in his face, and buffeted him, and other smote him with roddes, 68 Saying, Prophecie to vs, O Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
• Matt 27:27-50 : 27 Then the souldiers of the gouernour tooke Iesus into the common hall, and gathered about him the whole band, 28 And they stripped him, and put about him a skarlet robe, 29 And platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, God saue thee King of the Iewes, 30 And spitted vpon him, and tooke a reede, and smote him on the head. 31 Thus when they had mocked him, they tooke the robe from him, and put his owne rayment on him, and led him away to crucifie him. 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they compelled to beare his crosse. 33 And when they came vnto the place called Golgotha, (that is to say, the place of dead mens skulles) 34 They gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drinke. 35 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, and did cast lottes, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, They deuided my garments among them, and vpon my vesture did cast lottes. 36 And they sate, and watched him there. 37 They set vp also ouer his head his cause written, THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES. 38 And there were two theeues crucified with him, one on the right hand, & another on the left. 39 And they that passed by, reuiled him, wagging their heades, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest ye Temple, & buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: if thou be ye Sonne of God, come downe fro ye crosse. 41 Likewise also the hie Priests mocking him, with the Scribes, and Elders, and Pharises, said, 42 He saued others, but he cannot saue him selfe: if he be ye King of Israel, let him now come downe from ye crosse, and we will beleeue in him. 43 He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God. 44 The selfe same thing also ye theeues which were crucified with him, cast in his teeth. 45 Now from ye sixt houre was there darkenesse ouer all the land, vnto the ninth houre. 46 And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? Yt is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 And some of them that stoode there, when they heard it, said, This man calleth Elias. 48 And straightway one of them ran, & tooke a spondge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke. 49 Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him. 50 Then Iesus cryed againe with a loude voyce, and yeelded vp the ghost.
• Mark 9:12 : 12 And he answered, and said vnto them, Elias verely shall first come, and restore all things: and as it is written of the Sonne of man, hee must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
• Mark 9:24 : 24 And straightway the father of the childe crying with teares, saide, Lorde, I beleeue: helpe my vnbeliefe.
• Mark 14:36 : 36 And he saide, Abba, Father, all things are possible vnto thee: take away this cup from me: neuertheles not that I will, but that thou wilt, be done.
• Luke 17:5 : 5 And the Apostles saide vnto the Lorde, Increase our faith.
• Luke 23:11 : 11 And Herod with his men of warre, despised him, and mocked him, and arayed him in white, and sent him againe to Pilate.
• Luke 23:35-39 : 35 And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying, He saued others: let him saue himselfe, if hee be that Christ, the Chosen of God. 36 The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vineger, 37 And said, If thou be the King of the Iewes, saue thy selfe. 38 And a superscription was also written ouer him, in Greeke letters, and in Latin, and in Hebrewe, This is that King of The Iewes. 39 And one of the euill doers, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be that Christ, saue thy selfe and vs.
• 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.
• John 1:29 : 29 The next day Iohn, seeth Iesus coming vnto him, and saith, Beholde that Lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the world.
• John 6:40 : 40 And this is the will of him that sent mee, that euery man which seeth the Sonne, and beleeueth in him, should haue euerlasting life: and I will raise him vp at the last day.
• John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.
• John 12:24 : 24 Verely, verely I say vnto you, Except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and die, it bideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth foorth much fruite.
• John 12:32 : 32 And I, if I were lift vp from the earth, will drawe all men vnto me.
• 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,
• John 13:31-32 : 31 When hee was gone out, Iesus sayd, Nowe is the Sonne of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorifie him in himselfe, and shal straightway glorifie him.
• John 17:1-4 : 1 These things spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and saide, Father, that houre is come: glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee, 2 As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him. 3 And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ. 4 I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.
• Acts 2:25-26 : 25 For Dauid sayeth concerning him, I beheld the Lorde alwaies before me: for hee is at my right hand, that l should not be shaken. 26 Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,
• Acts 2:36 : 36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a suretie, that God hath made him both Lorde, and Christ, this Iesus, I say, whome yee haue crucified.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his Name.
• 1 Cor 1:7-8 : 7 So that ye are not destitute of any gift: wayting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ. 8 Who shall also confirme you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse, in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.
• Eph 2:16 : 16 And that he might reconcile both vnto God in one body by his crosse, and slay hatred thereby,
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will powre vpon the house of Dauid, and vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the Spirite of grace and of compassion, and they shall looke vpon me, whom they haue pearced, and they shall lament for him, as one mourneth for his onely sonne, and be sorie for him as one is sorie for his first borne.
• Heb 12:3 : 3 Consider therefore him that endured such speaking against of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your mindes.
• 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 That which was from the beginning, which wee haue heard, which wee haue seene with these our eyes, which wee haue looked vpon, and these handes of ours haue handled of that Word of life, 2 (For that life was made manifest, and wee haue seene it, and beare witnes, and shewe vnto you that eternall life, which was with the Father, and was made manifest vnto vs) 3 That, I say, which wee haue seene and heard, declare wee vnto you, that yee may also haue fellowship with vs, and that our fellowship also may be with the Father, and with his Sonne Iesvs Christ.
• Jude 1:21 : 21 And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lorde Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, Which is, and Which was, and Which is to come, euen the Almightie.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, that first and that last: & that which thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamus, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.
• Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feete as dead: then he laid his right hand vpon me, saying vnto me, Feare not: I am that first and that last,