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Acts 18:13

Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

KJV

λέγοντες ὅτι παρὰ τὸν νόμον ἀναπείθει οὗτος τοὺς ἀνθρώπους σέβεσθαι τὸν θεόν.

Greek NT

dicentes : Quia contra legem hic persuadet hominibus colere Deum.

Vulgate

saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

ASV

Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
σέβομαι
sebomai
verb · 10×
ἀναπείθω
anapeitho
verb · 1×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἀναπείθει οὗτος | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀναπείθει οὗτος | RP: οὗτος ἀναπείθει
  • ἀναπείθει οὗτοςSBLGNT
  • ἀναπείθει οὗτοςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὗτος ἀναπείθειRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 5:11 — Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
  • Acts 6:13 — And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
  • Acts 21:28 — Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted
  • Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • Acts 25:8 — While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
  • Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  • Matt 26:61 — And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.