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Acts 5:8

And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

KJV

ἀπεκρίθη δὲ πρὸς αὐτὴν Πέτρος, εἰπέ μοι, εἰ τοσούτου τὸ χωρίον ἀπέδοσθε; ἡ δὲ εἶπεν, ναί, τοσούτου.

Greek NT

Dixit autem ei Petrus : Dic mihi mulier, si tanti agrum vendidistis ? At illa dixit : Etiam tanti.

Vulgate

And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.

ASV

And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much.

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×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ναί
nai
particle · 34×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τοσοῦτος
tosoutos
demonstrative · 20×
χωρίον
chorion
noun · 10×
ἀποδίδωμι
apodidomi
verb · 48×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: πρὸς αὐτὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: πρὸς αὐτὴν | RP: αὐτῇ
  • πρὸς αὐτὴνSBLGNT
  • πρὸς αὐτὴνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αὐτῇRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Πέτρος | WH/Treg/NIV: Πέτρος | RP: ὁ Πέτρος
  • ΠέτροςSBLGNT
  • ΠέτροςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὁ ΠέτροςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

1. In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth has come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed? He here accordingly labors at this very point, showing that …

Cross-references

  • Eccl 8:3 — Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
  • Job 31:33 — If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: