Acts 8:28
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
KJV
ἦν τε ὑποστρέφων καὶ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τοῦ ἅρματος αὐτοῦ ἀνεγίνωσκεν τὸν προφήτην Ἠσαΐαν.
Greek NT
et revertebatur sedens super currum suum, legensque Isaiam prophetam.
Vulgate
and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
ASV
And he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading Isaias the prophet.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
ἀναγινώσκω
anaginosko
verb · 32×
ἅρμα
arma
noun · 4×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
Ἡσαΐας
esaias
noun · 23×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑποστρέφω
upostrepho
verb · 36×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: τε | Treg/NIV/RP: τε | WH: δὲ
- τε — SBLGNT
- τε — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- δὲ — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§334In the meantime, the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels.201
2. Reflect then how great an evil it is for us, who ought to live so purely as not even to need written words, but to yield up our hearts, as books, to the Spirit; now that we have lost that honor, and have come to have need of these, to fail again in duly employing even this second remedy. For if it be a blame to stand in need of written words, and not to have brought down on …
Cross-references
- Acts 28:25 — And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
- Col 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Isa 1:1 — The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
- John 12:38 — That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?