Acts 8:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτε δὲ ἐπίστευσαν τῷ Φιλίππῳ εὐαγγελιζομένῳ τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τοῦ ὀνόματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐβαπτίζοντο, ἄνδρες τε καὶ γυναῖκες.

Transliteration

But when episteusan to Philippō euangelizomenō the things concerning the basileias of Theou, and the onomatos Iēsou Christou, they ebaptizonto, andres te and gynaikes.

Grammar Details

• *episteusan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - believed
• *Philippō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Philip
• *euangelizomenō*: present middle participle, dative, masculine, singular - preaching the gospel
• *basileias*: genitive, feminine, singular - kingdom
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *onomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - name
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *ebaptizonto*: imperfect passive indicative, 3rd plural - were being baptized
• *andres*: nominative, masculine, plural - men
• *te*: enclitic particle - both/and
• *gynaikes*: nominative, feminine, plural - women

Word Meanings

• *episteusan*: believed/trusted/had faith in
• *euangelizomenō*: preaching the gospel/announcing good news
• *basileias*: kingdom/reign/rule
• *ebaptizonto*: were being baptized/immersed

Referenced Verses

• Acts 1:3 : 3 to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 2:41 : 41 then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
• Matt 28:19 : 19 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; 16 he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
• Luke 9:2 : 2 and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.
• Luke 9:60 : 60 and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'
• Acts 5:14 : 14 (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)
• Acts 8:35-38 : 35 and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus. 36 And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?' 37 `And Philip said, `If thou dost believe out of all the heart, it is lawful;' and he answering said, `I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God;'' 38 and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;
• Acts 11:20 : 20 and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,
• Acts 16:14-15 : 14 and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul; 15 and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.
• Acts 16:31-34 : 31 and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;' 32 and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household; 33 and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe `them' from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently, 34 having brought them also into his house, he set food before `them', and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.
• Acts 18:8 : 8 and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 20:25 : 25 `And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;
• Acts 28:31 : 31 preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness -- unforbidden.
• Rom 10:10 : 10 for with the heart doth `one' believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;
• 1 Cor 11:11 : 11 but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
• Gal 3:28 : 28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;