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Acts 3:3

Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

KJV

ὃς ἰδὼν Πέτρον καὶ Ἰωάννην μέλλοντας εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἠρώτα ἐλεημοσύνην λαβεῖν.

Greek NT

Is cum vidisset Petrum et Joannem incipientes introire in templum, rogabat ut eleemosynam acciperet.

Vulgate

who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

ASV

He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἴσειμι
eiseimi
verb · 4×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
ἐλεημοσύνη
eleemosune
noun · 13×
ἐρωτάω
erotao
verb · 65×
ἱερόν
ieron
noun · 72×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

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

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

Historic Christian voices

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