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Acts 3:23

And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

KJV

ἔσται δὲ πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἥτις ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ τοῦ προφήτου ἐκείνου ἐξολεθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ.

Greek NT

Erit autem : omnis anima quæ non audierit prophetam illum, exterminabitur de plebe.

Vulgate

And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

ASV

And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ψυχή
psuche
noun · 102×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐξολοθρεύω
exolothreuo
verb · 1×
o
article · 19778×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Deut 18:19 · adapted
    "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him."
    Deuteronomy: whoever does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἂν | WH/Treg: ἂν | NIV/RP: ἐὰν
  • ἂνSBLGNT
  • ἂνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • ἐὰνReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 18:19 — And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
  • Heb 10:28 — He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
  • Heb 10:39 — But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
  • Heb 12:25 — See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
  • Hos 9:17 — My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
  • John 10:27 — My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
  • John 12:48 — He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
  • John 12:48 — He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
  • Lev 26:14 — But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
  • Rev 20:15 — And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.