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Acts 4:18

And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

KJV

καὶ καλέσαντες αὐτοὺς παρήγγειλαν καθόλου μὴ φθέγγεσθαι μηδὲ διδάσκειν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Ἰησοῦ.

Greek NT

Et vocantes eos, denuntiaverunt ne omnino loquerentur neque docerent in nomine Jesu.

Vulgate

And they called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

ASV

And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διδάσκω
didasko
verb · 97×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθόλου
katholou
adverb · 1×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
παραγγέλλω
paraggello
verb · 30×
φθέγγομαι
phtheggomai
verb · 3×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: τὸ | Treg/NIV: τὸ | RP: αὐτοῖς τὸ
  • τὸSBLGNT
  • τὸTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αὐτοῖς τὸRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 5:20 — Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
  • Acts 5:28 — Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
  • Acts 5:40 — And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
  • Exod 1:17 — But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
  • Luke 24:46 — And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: