Acts 4:27
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
KJV
συνήχθησαν γὰρ ἐπ’ ἀληθείας ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ ἐπὶ τὸν ἅγιον παῖδά σου Ἰησοῦν, ὃν ἔχρισας, Ἡρῴδης τε καὶ Πόντιος Πειλᾶτος σὺν ἔθνεσιν καὶ λαοῖς Ἰσραήλ,
Greek NT
Convenerunt enim vere in civitate ista adversus sanctum puerum tuum Jesum, quem unxisti, Herodes et Pontius Pilatus, cum gentibus et populis Israël,
Vulgate
for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
ASV
For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
23 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Πιλᾶτος
pilatos
noun · 55×
Πόντιος
pontios
noun · 3×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παῖς
pais
noun · 24×
πόλις
polis
noun · 164×
συνάγω
sunago
verb · 59×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
σύν
sun
preposition · 129×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
χρίω
chrio
verb · 5×
ἀλήθεια
aletheia
noun · 109×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
Ἡρώδης
erodes
noun · 43×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ
- ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ — SBLGNT
- ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Themes
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§436The word "Christ" comes from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed". It became the name proper to Jesus only because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission that "Christ" signifies. In effect, in Israel those consecrated to God for a mission that he gave were anointed in his name. This was the case for kings, for priests and, in rare instances,…
§600To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his grace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your ha…
God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
I say this, dearly beloved, not that I know any of you to be in such a state; but, as less than any of you, I desire to guard you beforehand, that ye fall not upon the hooks of vain doctrine, but that ye attain to full assurance in regard to the birth, and passion, and resurrection which took place in the time of the government of Pontius Pilate.
Was it necessary for Christ to suffer for men's deliverance? Was there any other possible means of delivering men? Was this the more suitable means? Was it fitting for Christ to suffer on the cross? The extent of His sufferings Was the pain which He endured the greatest? Did His entire soul suffer? Did His Passion hinder the joy of fruition? The time of the Passion The place Wa…
The Arminian notion of liberty — that the will must be self-determined, or able to determine itself without any prior cause — involves an infinite regress. For if the first act of choice must itself be chosen by a prior act, then that prior act must also be chosen, and so on to infinity. This is absurd. The truth is that the will is determined by the motives which God's provide…
Q. Why did he suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge? A. So that he, though innocent, might be condemned by a civil judge, and so free us from the severe judgment of God that was to fall on us.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 16:12 — And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
- Acts 3:14 — But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
- Acts 4:30 — By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
- Acts 4:30 — By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
- Exod 12:6 — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
- Heb 7:26 — For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Isa 10:27 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
- Isa 37:26 — Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
- Isa 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
- Isa 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and th
- John 3:14 — And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
- John 15:20 — Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
- Judg 9:9 — But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- Luke 3:1 — Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of
- Luke 4:18 — The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sig
- Luke 9:22 — Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
- Luke 19:14 — But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
- Luke 23:12 — And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
- Mark 11:27 — And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
- Matt 14:1 — At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
- Matt 21:38 — But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
- Matt 27:2 — And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
- Prov 19:21 — There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
- Prov 21:30 — There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
- Ps 22:12 — Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
- Ps 22:21 — Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
- Ps 33:11 — The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.