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Acts 10:39

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

KJV

καὶ ἡμεῖς μάρτυρες πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ἔν τε τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, ὃν καὶ ἀνεῖλαν κρεμάσαντες ἐπὶ ξύλου.

Greek NT

Et nos testes sumus omnium quæ fecit in regione Judæorum, et Jerusalem, quem occiderunt suspendentes in ligno.

Vulgate

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom also they slew, hanging him on a tree.

ASV

And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κρεμάννυμι
kremannumi
verb · 7×
μάρτυς
martus
noun · 35×
ξύλον
xulon
noun · 20×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
χώρα
chora
noun · 28×
ἀναιρέω
anaireo
verb · 24×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
Ἱερουσαλήμ
ierousalem
noun · 79×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἡμεῖς | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡμεῖς | RP: + ἐσμεν
  • ἡμεῖςSBLGNT
  • ἡμεῖςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἐσμενRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg: καὶ | NIV/RP: + ἐν
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • + ἐνReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§597The historical complexity of Jesus' trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. the personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to God alone. Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pent…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:23 — But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
  • 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • Acts 1:8 — But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth
  • Acts 2:32 — This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
  • Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Acts 5:30 — The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
  • Acts 5:32 — And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
  • Acts 10:41 — Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
  • Acts 10:41 — Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
  • Acts 17:31 — Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from
  • Acts 22:15 — For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
  • John 15:27 — And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
  • John 19:35 — And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
  • Luke 1:2 — Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
  • Luke 24:48 — And ye are witnesses of these things.
  • Luke 24:48 — And ye are witnesses of these things.