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Acts 3:12

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

KJV

ἰδὼν δὲ ὁ Πέτρος ἀπεκρίνατο πρὸς τὸν λαόν, ἄνδρες Ἰσραηλεῖται, τί θαυμάζετε ἐπὶ τούτῳ, ἢ ἡμῖν τί ἀτενίζετε ὡς ἰδίᾳ δυνάμει ἢ εὐσεβείᾳ πεποιηκόσιν τοῦ περιπατεῖν αὐτόν;

Greek NT

Videns autem Petrus, respondit ad populum : Viri Israëlitæ, quid miramini in hoc, aut nos quid intuemini, quasi nostra virtute aut potestate fecerimus hunc ambulare ?

Vulgate

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this man? or why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk?

ASV

But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

Douay-Rheims

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People Peter

In the original Greek

23 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δύναμις
dunamis
noun · 119×
εὐσέβεια
eusebeia
noun · 15×
θαυμάζω
thaumazo
verb · 43×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
περιπατέω
peripateo
verb · 94×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἀτενίζω
atenizo
verb · 14×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
e
particle · 346×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
Ἰσραηλίτης
israelites
noun · 9×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Textual variants

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

trivial
SBLGNT: ὁ | WH/Treg/NIV: ὁ
  • SBLGNT
  • Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 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…
1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
2. Let no man deceive himself; if any man thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool. As he bids one become, as it were, dead unto the world — and this deadness harms not at all, but rather profits, being made a cause of life:— so also he bids him become foolish unto this world, introducing to us hereby the true wisdom. Now he becomes a fool unto the world, who…
Since God as Spirit is in essence invisible and immense, he cannot really be expressed by any art or image. For this reason we are not afraid to say with Scripture that images of God are mere lies. Therefore we reject not only the idols of the Gentiles, but also the images of Christians. Although Christ assumed human nature, yet he did not on that account assume it in order to …

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 3:5 — Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
  • 2Kgs 2:14 — And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elish
  • Acts 1:11 — Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
  • Acts 2:22 — Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
  • Acts 2:22 — Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
  • Acts 3:4 — And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
  • Acts 9:34 — And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
  • Acts 10:25 — And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
  • Acts 13:26 — Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
  • Acts 14:11 — And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
  • Dan 2:28 — But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
  • Dan 2:30 — But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know
  • Gen 40:8 — And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
  • Gen 41:16 — And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
  • Gen 41:16 — And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
  • John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  • John 3:27 — John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
  • John 7:18 — He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • John 11:43 — And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
  • Mark 12:11 — This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
  • Mark 16:18 — They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
  • Rev 19:10 — And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is
  • Rom 9:4 — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
  • Rom 11:1 — I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.