Acts 14:15

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

and sayinge: syrs why do ye this? We are mortall men lyke vnto you and preache vnto you that ye shuld turne from these vanyties vnto ye lyvinge God which made heaven and erth and the see and all that in them is:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ, λέγοντες, Ἄνδρες, τί ταῦτα ποιεῖτε; Καὶ ἡμεῖς ὁμοιοπαθεῖς ἐσμεν ὑμῖν ἄνθρωποι, εὐαγγελιζόμενοι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τούτων τῶν ματαίων ἐπιστρέφειν ἐπὶ τὸν Θεὸν τὸν ζῶντα, ὃς ἐποίησεν τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς:

Transliteration

And, legontes, Andres, why these things poieite? Also we homoiopatheis esmen to you anthrōpoi, euangelizomenoi you from these mataiōn to epistrephein to the Theon the zōnta, who epoiēsen the ouranon, and the gēn, and the thalassan, and all the things in them:

Grammar Details

• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - saying
• *Andres*: vocative masculine plural - men
• *poieite*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you do/are doing
• *homoiopatheis*: nominative masculine plural - having like feelings/similar nature
• *esmen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we are
• *anthrōpoi*: nominative masculine plural - humans/people
• *euangelizomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative masculine plural - proclaiming good news
• *mataiōn*: genitive neuter plural - vain things/worthless things
• *epistrephein*: present active infinitive - to turn/return
• *Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God
• *zōnta*: present active participle, accusative masculine singular - living
• *epoiēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - made/created
• *ouranon*: accusative masculine singular - heaven/sky
• *gēn*: accusative feminine singular - earth/land
• *thalassan*: accusative feminine singular - sea
• *panta*: accusative neuter plural - all things

Word Meanings

• *homoiopatheis*: with like feelings/of similar nature/with the same nature
• *mataiōn*: vain things/worthless things/empty practices
• *epistrephein epi ton Theon ton zōnta*: to turn to the living God/to convert to the living God
• *epoiēsen ton ouranon kai tēn gēn kai tēn thalassan*: made the heaven and the earth and the sea (reference to creation)

Referenced Verses

• Acts 10:26 : 26 But Peter toke him vp sayinge: stonde vp: for evyn I my silfe am a ma.
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydols we are sure that ther is none ydoll in the worlde and that ther is none other god but one.
• Jas 5:17 : 17 Helias was a man mortall even as we are and he prayed in his prayer that it myght not rayne: and it rayned not on the erth by the space of thre yeares and sixe monethes.
• Rev 14:7 : 7 sayinge with a lowde voyce: Feare God and geve honour to him for the houre of his iudgement is come: and worshyppe him that made heven and erth and the see and fountaynes of water.
• 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they the selves shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you and how ye tourned to God from ymages for to serve the livynge and true god
• Deut 32:21 : 21 They haue angred me with that whiche is no god, and prouoked me with their vanities And I agayne will angre them with the whiche are no people, and will prouoke the with a foelish nacion.
• Gen 1:1 : 1 ¶ In the begynnynge God created heaven and erth.
• Matt 16:16 : 16 Simo Peter answered and sayde: Thou arte Christ ye sonne of the lyvinge God.
• Acts 4:24 : 24 And when they hearde that they lyfte vp their voyces to God with one accorde and sayde: Lorde thou arte God which hast made heaven and erth the see and all that in them is
• Acts 7:26 : 26 And the next daye he shewed him selfe vnto the as they strove and wolde have set the at one agayne sayinge: Syrs ye are brethren why hurte ye one another?
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 They yt obserue vayne vanities haue forsake him that was mercifull vn to them.
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 but and yf I tarie longe yt then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thy silfe in the housse of God which is the congregacion of the livinge God the pillar and grounde of trueth.
• Heb 3:12 : 12 Take hede brethren that therbe in none of you an evyll herte in vnbeleve that he shuld departe from ye lyvynge god:
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I saye therfore and testifie in ye LORde that ye hence forth walke not as other gentyls walke in vanitie of their mynde
• Rev 19:10 : 10 And I fell at his fete to worshyppe him. And he sayde vnto me se thou do it not. For I am thy felowe seruaunt and one of thy brethern and of them that have the testimony of Iesus. Worshyppe God. For the testymony of Iesus ys the sprete of prophesy.
• Rev 19:19 : 19 And I sawe the beste and the kynges of the erth and their warriers gaddred to gedder to make battayle agaynste him that satt on the horsse and agaynst his sowdiers.
• Rev 22:9 : 9 And he sayd vnto me: se thou do it not for I am thy feloweservaunt and the feloweservaunt of thy brethren the prophettes and of them which kepe the sayinges of this boke. But worshippe God.
• John 5:26 : 26 For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he geven to ye sonne to have lyfe in him silfe:
• John 7:18 : 18 He that speaketh of him selfe seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him the same is true and no vnrightewesnes is in him.
• Acts 3:12-13 : 12 When Peter sawe that he answered vnto the people. Ye men of Israel why marvayle ye at this or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs as though by oure awne power or holynes we had made this man goo? 13 The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of oure fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus whom ye delyvered and denyed in the presence of Pylate whe he had iudged him to be lowsed.
• Gen 41:16 : 16 And Ioseph answered Pharao saynge: God shall geue Pharao an answere of peace without me.
• Exod 20:11 : 11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made both heauen and erth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye: wherfore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath daye and halowed it.
• Deut 5:26 : 26 For what is any flesh that he shulde heare the voyce of the lyuynge God speakynge out of the fyre as we haue done and shulde yet lyue:
• Acts 12:22-23 : 22 And the people gave a shoute sayinge: it is ye voyce of a God and not of a man. 23 And immediatly the angell of ye Lorde smote him because he gave not God the honoure and he was eatyn of wormes and gave vp the goost.
• Acts 13:32 : 32 And we declare vnto you how that ye promes made vnto the fathers
• Acts 14:7 : 7 and there preached the gospell.
• Acts 14:21 : 21 After they had preached to that cite and had taught many they returned agayne to Lisira and to Iconium and Antioche
• Acts 16:30 : 30 and brought them out and sayde: Syrs what must I do to be saved?
• Acts 17:16-18 : 16 Whyll Paul wayted for them at Attens his sprete was moved in him to se the cite geven to worshippinge of ymages. 17 Then he disputed in the synagoge wt the Iewes and with the devout persones and in the market dayly with the that came vnto him. 18 Certayne philosophers of ye Epicures and of ye stoyckes disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he semeth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion.
• Acts 17:24-30 : 24 God that made the worlde and all that are in it seynge that he is Lorde of heven and erth he dwelleth not in temples made with hondes 25 nether is worshipped with mennes hondes as though he neded of eny thinge seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where 26 and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion 27 that they shuld seke God yf they myght fele and fynde him though he be not farre from every one of vs. 28 For in him we lyve move and have oure beynge as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion. 29 For as moche then as we are the generacion of God we ought not to thynke that the godhed is lyke vnto golde silver or stone graven by crafte and ymaginacion of man. 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God regarded not: but now he byddeth all men every where repen
• Acts 26:17-20 : 17 delyverynge the from the people and from ye gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the 18 to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght and from the power of Satan vnto God that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inheritauce amonge the which are sanctified by fayth in me. 19 Wherfore kynge Agrippa I was not disobedient vnto the hevenly vision: 20 but shewed fyrst vnto them of Damasco and at Ierusalem and thorow out all the costes of Iewry and to the gentyls that they shuld repent and turne to God and do the ryght workes of repentaunce.
• Acts 27:10 : 10 and sayde vnto them Syrs I perceave that this vyage wilbe with hurte and moche domage not of the ladynge and ship only: but also of oure lyves.
• Acts 27:21 : 21 Then after longe abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddes of them and sayde: Syrs ye shulde have harkened to me and not have lowsed from Candy nether to have brought vnto vs this harme and losse.
• Acts 27:25 : 25 Wherfore Syrs be of good chere: for I beleve God that so it shalbe even as it was tolde me.
• Rom 1:20-23 : 20 So that his invisible thinges: that is to saye his eternall power and godhed are vnderstonde and sene by the workes from the creacion of the worlde. So that they are without excuse 21 in as moche as when they knewe god they glorified him not as God nether were thakfull but wexed full of vanities in their imaginacions and their folisshe hertes were blynded. 22 When they couted them selves wyse they became foles 23 and turned the glory of the immortall god vnto the similitude of the ymage of mortall man and of byrdes and foure foted beastes and of serpentes.