Acts 8:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And the apostles in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria hath received the word of God, did send unto them Peter and John,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀκούσαντες δὲ οἱ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἀπόστολοι ὅτι δέδεκται ἡ Σαμάρεια τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὸν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰωάννην:

Transliteration

Akousantes de the in Hierosolymois apostoloi that dedektai the Samareia the logon of Theou, apesteilan pros them the Petron and Iōannēn:

Grammar Details

• *Akousantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having heard
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *Hierosolymois*: dative, neuter, plural - in Jerusalem
• *apostoloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - apostles
• *dedektai*: perfect middle/passive indicative, 3rd singular - has received
• *Samareia*: nominative, feminine, singular - Samaria
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *apesteilan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - sent
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to
• *Petron*: accusative, masculine, singular - Peter
• *Iōannēn*: accusative, masculine, singular - John

Word Meanings

• *Akousantes*: having heard/when they heard
• *dedektai*: has received/accepted
• *logon*: word/message
• *apesteilan*: sent/dispatched

Referenced Verses

• Acts 8:1 : 1 And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;
• Gal 2:9 : 9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
• 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
• 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,
• Acts 11:1 : 1 And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,
• Acts 11:19-22 : 19 Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only; 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, 21 and the hand of the Lord was with them, a great number also, having believed, did turn unto the Lord. 22 And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that `is' in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch,
• Acts 15:4 : 4 And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;
• Acts 17:11 : 11 and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
• Matt 13:23 : 23 `And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'
• Luke 22:8 : 8 and he sent Peter and John, saying, `Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'
• John 12:48 : 48 `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,
• 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,
• Acts 3:1-3 : 1 And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth `hour', 2 and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple, 3 who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.