Acts 9:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τρέμων τε καὶ θαμβῶν εἶπε, Κύριε, τί με θέλεις ποιῆσαι; Καὶ ὁ Κύριος πρὸς αὐτόν, Ἀνάστηθι, καὶ εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ λαληθήσεταί σοι τί σε δεῖ ποιεῖν.

Transliteration

Tremōn both and thambōn he eipe, Kyrie, what me theleis poiēsai? And the Kyrios pros him, Anastēthi, and eiselthe into the polin, and lalēthēsetai to you what you dei poiein.

Grammar Details

• *Tremōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - trembling
• *thambōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - being amazed/astonished
• *eipe*: aorist, active, 3rd singular - said/spoke
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord/Sir/Master
• *theleis*: present, active, 2nd singular - you wish/want
• *poiēsai*: aorist infinitive, active - to do/make
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *Anastēthi*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd singular - stand up/rise
• *eiselthe*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd singular - enter/go into
• *polin*: accusative, feminine, singular - city
• *lalēthēsetai*: future, passive, 3rd singular - it will be told/spoken
• *dei*: present, active, 3rd singular - it is necessary
• *poiein*: present infinitive, active - to do/make

Word Meanings

• *Tremōn*: trembling/shaking/quivering
• *thambōn*: being amazed/astonished/astounded
• *theleis*: wish/want/desire
• *poiēsai*: to do/make/perform
• *Anastēthi*: stand up/rise/get up
• *eiselthe*: enter/go into/come into
• *polin*: city/town
• *lalēthēsetai*: will be told/spoken/said
• *dei*: it is necessary/one must/ought

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 28:5 : 5 When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was absolutely terrified.
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 The LORD is both kind and fair; that is why he teaches sinners the right way to live. 9 May he show the humble what is right! May he teach the humble his way!
• Ps 25:12 : 12 The LORD shows his faithful followers the way they should live.
• Ps 94:12 : 12 How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
• Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them.
• Isa 66:2 : 2 My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the LORD. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.
• Ezek 16:6-8 : 6 “‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!” 7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare. 8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
• Hab 3:16 : 16 Habakkuk Declares His Confidence I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.
• Matt 19:30 : 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
• Luke 3:10 : 10 So the crowds were asking him,“What then should we do?”
• Acts 2:37 : 37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”
• Acts 9:15-16 : 15 But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel. 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
• Acts 10:6 : 6 This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
• Acts 10:22 : 22 They said,“Cornelius the centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”
• Acts 10:32 : 32 Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
• Acts 11:13-14 : 13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, 14 who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’
• Acts 16:29-30 : 29 Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
• Acts 22:10 : 10 So I asked,‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me,‘Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything that you have been designated to do.’
• Acts 24:25-26 : 25 While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said,“Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.” 26 At the same time he was also hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he sent for Paul as often as possible and talked with him.
• Acts 26:16 : 16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.
• Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
• Rom 7:9 : 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
• Rom 9:15-24 : 15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy. 17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh:“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden. 19 You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory– 24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 10:3 : 3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Rom 10:20 : 20 And Isaiah is even bold enough to say,“I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”
• Gal 1:15-16 : 15 But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
• Phil 2:12 : 12 Lights in the World So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
• 1 Tim 1:14-16 : 14 and our Lord’s grace was abundant, bringing faith and love in Christ Jesus. 15 This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance:“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”– and I am the worst of them! 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
• Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”