Acts 4:8
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
KJV
τότε Πέτρος πλησθεὶς πνεύματος ἁγίου εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς, ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ πρεσβύτεροι,
Greek NT
Tunc repletus Spiritu Sancto Petrus, dixit ad eos : Principes populi, et seniores, audite :
Vulgate
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders,
ASV
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people and ancients, hear.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
πλήθω
pletho
verb · 24×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
πρεσβύτερος
presbuteros
adjective · 67×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
ἄρχων
archon
noun · 37×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: πρεσβύτεροι | WH/Treg/NIV: πρεσβύτεροι | RP: + τοῦ Ἰσραήλ
- πρεσβύτεροι — SBLGNT
- πρεσβύτεροι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τοῦ Ἰσραήλ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 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…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:6 — Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
- 1Pet 3:15 — But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
- Acts 2:4 — And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- Acts 2:4 — And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- Acts 4:5 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
- Acts 4:31 — And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
- Acts 7:55 — But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
- Acts 13:9 — Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
- Dan 3:15 — Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well:
- Jer 15:20 — And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the L
- John 10:38 — But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
- John 20:22 — And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
- Luke 1:41 — And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
- Luke 12:11 — And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
- Luke 12:12 — For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
- Luke 21:14 — Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
- Luke 21:15 — For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
- Luke 23:13 — And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
- Luke 24:20 — And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
- Mark 13:11 — But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is no
- Matt 10:19 — But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
- Matt 10:20 — For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
- Mic 3:8 — But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.