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Acts 8:33

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

KJV

ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει ἡ κρίσις αὐτοῦ ἤρθη· τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται; ὅτι αἴρεται ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ.

Greek NT

In humilitate judicium ejus sublatum est. Generationem ejus quis enarrabit ? quoniam tolletur de terra vita ejus.

Vulgate

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.

ASV

In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall declare, for his life shall be taken from the earth?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἴρω
airo
verb · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γενεά
genea
noun · 43×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
διηγέομαι
diegeomai
verb · 8×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
κρίσις
krisis
noun · 47×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ταπείνωσις
tapeinosis
noun · 4×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

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

notable
SBLGNT: ταπεινώσει | WH/Treg: ταπεινώσει | NIV/RP: + αὐτοῦ
  • ταπεινώσειSBLGNT
  • ταπεινώσειWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • + αὐτοῦReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: τὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: τὴν | RP: + δὲ
  • τὴνSBLGNT
  • τὴνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + δὲRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

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

Who hath believed our report? He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. This chapter is the summit of Old Testament prophecy concerning the suffering Messiah. Calvin shows that every detail — the vicarious bearing of our griefs, the chastisement of our peace, the stripes by which we are healed, the silence before his shearers, the death amo…

Cross-references

  • Isa 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
  • Isa 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
  • Isa 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
  • Phil 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  • Phil 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  • Zech 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little one