Acts 20:34

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
KJV

αὐτοὶ γινώσκετε ὅτι ταῖς χρείαις μου καὶ τοῖς οὖσιν μετ’ ἐμοῦ ὑπηρέτησαν αἱ χεῖρες αὗται.
Greek NT

ipsi scitis : quoniam ad ea quæ mihi opus erant, et his qui mecum sunt, ministraverunt manus istæ.
Vulgate

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
ASV

You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.
Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

γινώσκω

ginosko

verb · 222×

εἰμί

eimi

verb · 2461×

καί

kai

conjunction · 8973×

μετά

Historic Christian voices

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

Homilies on the Gospel of John

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…

Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians · 2 passages

2. This then is one way, and the first, by which he cast down their pride; the next has greater force. What then is this? In that he shows that not even this thing itself was in all points complete, but imperfect, and extremely so. And not only imperfect, but also injurious, unless there were another thing joined together with it. For having said that we have knowledge, he adde…

2. But first I wish to remind you who are initiated of the response , which on that evening they who introduce you to the mysteries bid you make; and then I will also explain the saying of Paul: so this likewise will be clearer to you; we after all the other things adding this which Paul now says. And I desire indeed expressly to utter it, but I dare not on account of the unini…

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

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 9:15 — 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.
2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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 18:3 — And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts 18:3 — And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts 19:22 — So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Eph 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Prov 31:20 — She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Rom 12:11 — Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rom 12:13 — Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.