Acts 18:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment, and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go unto 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 whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
• 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
• Ezek 18:13 : 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
• Neh 5:13 : 13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
• Acts 13:51 : 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
• Ezek 33:8-9 : 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
• Ezek 3:18-19 : 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
• Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him.
• Lev 20:11-12 : 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood [shall be] upon them.
• Rom 11:11-15 : 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
• 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
• 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• Jas 2:6-7 : 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
• 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 ¶ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:
• 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• Matt 8:11 : 11 ‹And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.›
• Matt 10:14 : 14 ‹And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.›
• Matt 21:43 : 43 ‹Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.›
• Matt 22:10 : 10 ‹So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.›
• Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
• Luke 9:5 : 5 ‹And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.›
• Luke 10:10-11 : 10 ‹But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,› 11 ‹Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.›
• Luke 22:65 : 65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
• Acts 13:45-47 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
• Acts 19:9-9 : 9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
• Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men]. 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Acts 26:11 : 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
• Acts 28:28 : 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it.
• Rom 3:29 : 29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
• Rom 9:25-26 : 25 ¶ As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
• Rom 9:30-33 : 30 ¶ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
• Rom 10:12-13 : 12 ¶ For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.