Acts 13:46

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παρρησιασάμενοι δὲ ὁ Παῦλος καὶ ὁ Βαρναβᾶς, εἶπον, Ὑμῖν ἦν ἀναγκαῖον πρῶτον λαληθῆναι τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ: ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀπωθεῖσθε αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ ἀξίους κρίνετε ἑαυτοὺς τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς, ἰδοὺ, στρεφόμεθα εἰς τὰ Ἔθνη.

Transliteration

Parrēsiasamenoi de Paulos and Barnabas, eipon, To you ēn anagkaion prōton lalēthēnai the logon of Theou: epeidē de you apōtheisthe it, and not axious krinete heautous of the aiōniou zōēs, idou, we strephometha to the Ethnē.

Grammar Details

• *Parrēsiasamenoi*: aorist, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having spoken boldly
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *Paulos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Paul
• *Barnabas*: nominative, masculine, singular - Barnabas
• *eipon*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person, plural - said
• *ēn*: imperfect, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - was
• *anagkaion*: nominative, neuter, singular - necessary
• *prōton*: adverb - first
• *lalēthēnai*: aorist, passive, infinitive - to be spoken
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *epeidē*: conjunction - since/because
• *apōtheisthe*: present, middle, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you push away/reject
• *axious*: accusative, masculine, plural - worthy
• *krinete*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you judge
• *heautous*: accusative, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *aiōniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - eternal
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - life
• *idou*: interjection - behold/look
• *strephometha*: present, middle, indicative, 1st person, plural - we turn
• *Ethnē*: accusative, neuter, plural - Gentiles/nations

Word Meanings

• *Parrēsiasamenoi*: speaking boldly/speaking freely/speaking with boldness
• *eipon*: said/spoke
• *anagkaion*: necessary/essential/required
• *lalēthēnai*: to be spoken/to be proclaimed
• *logon*: word/message/account
• *epeidē*: since/because/inasmuch as
• *apōtheisthe*: reject/push away/thrust aside
• *axious*: worthy/deserving
• *krinete*: judge/consider/reckon
• *aiōniou zōēs*: eternal life/everlasting life
• *strephometha*: turn/turn ourselves/are turning

Referenced Verses

• Acts 3:26 : 26 to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'
• Acts 28:28 : 28 `Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'
• Acts 26:20 : 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
• Acts 22:21 : 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
• Acts 13:26 : 26 `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
• Matt 21:43 : 43 `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;
• Matt 22:6-9 : 6 and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay `them'. 7 `And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire; 8 then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy, 9 be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts. 10 `And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.
• Luke 14:16-24 : 16 and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many, 17 and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready. 18 `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. 19 `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused: 20 and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. 21 `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither. 22 `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room. 23 `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled; 24 for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
• John 1:11 : 11 to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
• John 4:22 : 22 ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
• Exod 32:9-9 : 9 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it `is' a stiff-necked people; 10 and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'
• Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.
• Prov 28:1 : 1 The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
• Isa 49:5-8 : 5 And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.) 6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.' 7 Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.' 8 Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.
• Isa 55:5 : 5 Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.
• Matt 10:6 : 6 and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Matt 10:13-15 : 13 and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you. 14 `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet, 15 verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
• Acts 18:5-6 : 5 And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; 6 and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken `his' garments, he said unto them, `Your blood `is' upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'
• Acts 4:13 : 13 And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --
• Acts 4:29-31 : 29 `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word, 30 in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.' 31 And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,
• Acts 7:51 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;
• Acts 13:5 : 5 and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John `as' a ministrant;
• Acts 13:14 : 14 and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,
• Rom 1:16 : 16 for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
• Rom 2:10 : 10 and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
• Rom 9:4-5 : 4 who are Israelites, whose `is' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, 5 whose `are' the fathers, and of whom `is' the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.
• Rom 10:19-21 : 19 But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by `that which is' not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,' 20 and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;' 21 and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'
• Rom 11:11-13 : 11 I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy; 12 and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them? 13 For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;
• Eph 6:19-20 : 19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
• Phil 1:14 : 14 and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.
• Heb 11:34 : 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.