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Acts 15:14

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

KJV

Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.

Greek NT

Simon narravit quemadmodum primum Deus visitavit sumere ex gentibus populum nomini suo.

Vulgate

Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

ASV

Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Συμεών
sumeon
noun · 7×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐξηγέομαι
exegeomai
verb · 6×
ἐπισκέπτομαι
episkeptomai
verb · 11×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: λαὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: λαὸν | RP: + ἐπὶ
  • λαὸν — SBLGNT
  • λαὸν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἐπὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Doctrine of the rest of the apostles. 1. The Apostle Peter, therefore, after the resurrection of the Lord, and His assumption into the heavens, being desirous of filling up the number of the twelve apostles, and in electing into the place of Judas any substitute who should be chosen by God, thus addressed those who were present: Men [and] brethren, this Scripture must needs hav…
That one God formed all things in the world, by means of the Word and the Holy Spirit: and that although He is to us in this life invisible and incomprehensible, nevertheless He is not unknown; inasmuch as His works do declare Him, and His Word has shown that in many modes He may be seen and known. 1. As regards His greatness, therefore, it is not possible to know God, for it i…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1Pet 2:12 — Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
  • 2Pet 1:1 — Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
  • 2Pet 1:1 — Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
  • Acts 2:39 — For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
  • Acts 13:47 — For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
  • Acts 15:7 — And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the w
  • Acts 28:28 — Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
  • Eph 2:13 — But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
  • Exod 3:16 — Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
  • Isa 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
  • Isa 43:21 — This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
  • John 10:16 — And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
  • Luke 2:31 — Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
  • Matt 3:9 — And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  • Ps 106:4 — Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;