Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
KJV
καὶ διὰ τὸ ὁμότεχνον εἶναι ἔμενεν παρ’ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἠργάζοντο· ἦσαν γὰρ σκηνοποιοὶ τῇ τέχνῃ.
Greek NT
Et quia ejusdem erat artis, manebat apud eos, et operabatur. (Erant autem scenofactoriæ artis.)
Vulgate
and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.
ASV
And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μένω
meno
verb · 117×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
σκηνοποιός
skenopoios
noun · 1×
τέχνη
techne
noun · 3×
ἐργάζομαι
ergazomai
verb · 41×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁμότεχνος
omotechnos
adjective · 1×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: ἠργάζετο | WH: ἠργάζοντο
- ἠργάζετο — SBLGNT
- ἠργάζοντο — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τῇ τέχνῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: τῇ τέχνῃ | RP: τὴν τέχνην
- τῇ τέχνῃ — SBLGNT
- τῇ τέχνῃ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τὴν τέχνην — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The mild and gentle is not always useful, but there are times when the teacher needs sharper language. For if the disciple be dull and gross, then, in order to touch his dullness to the quick, we must rouse him with a goad. And this the Son of God has done in the present as well as in many other cases. For when the crowds had come and found Jesus, and were flattering Him, an…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210230.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:12 — And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
- 1Cor 4:12 — And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
- 1Cor 9:6 — Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
- 1Cor 9:6 — Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
- 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
- 1Cor 9:15 — But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
- 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
- 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
- 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- 2Cor 11:7 — Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
- 2Cor 11:9 — And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from bei
- 2Cor 12:13 — For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
- 2Thess 3:8 — Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
- 2Thess 3:8 — Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
- Acts 20:34 — Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
- Acts 20:34 — Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
- Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.