Galatians 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται, τίς ὑμᾶς ἐβάσκανεν, τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μὴ πείθεσθαι, οἷς κατʼ ὀφθαλμοὺς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς προεγράφη, ἐν ὑμῖν ἐσταυρωμένος;

Transliteration

O anoētoi Galatai, who you ebaskanen, the alētheia not to peithesthai, before whose ophthalmous Iēsous Christos was proegraphē, among you having been estaurōmenos?

Grammar Details

• *anoētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - foolish/unthinking
• *Galatai*: vocative, masculine, plural - Galatians
• *ebaskanen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - bewitched/fascinated/cast evil eye upon
• *alētheia*: dative, feminine, singular - truth
• *peithesthai*: present, middle/passive, infinitive - to obey/be persuaded
• *ophthalmous*: accusative, masculine, plural - eyes
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *proegraphē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person, singular - was portrayed/publicly displayed/written beforehand
• *estaurōmenos*: perfect, passive, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having been crucified

Word Meanings

• *anoētoi*: foolish/senseless/unthinking
• *ebaskanen*: bewitched/cast an evil eye upon/charmed/fascinated
• *peithesthai*: to obey/be persuaded/trust/comply with
• *proegraphē*: was portrayed publicly/was placarded/was written beforehand
• *estaurōmenos*: crucified/executed on a cross

Referenced Verses

• Heb 5:9 : 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Rev 13:13-14 : 13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
• Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
• Deut 32:6 : 6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
• 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
• Matt 7:26 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Luke 24:25 : 25 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
• Acts 6:7 : 7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
• Acts 8:9-9 : 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God." 11 They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
• Rom 2:8 : 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
• Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
• Rom 10:16 : 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
• 1 Cor 1:23-24 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
• 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
• 1 Cor 11:26 : 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
• Gal 1:6 : 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
• Gal 3:3 : 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
• Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
• Gal 5:7-8 : 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• Eph 5:15 : 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,