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Acts 9:20

And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

KJV

καὶ εὐθέως ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς ἐκήρυσσεν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ.

Greek NT

Et continuo in synagogis prædicabat Jesum, quoniam hic est Filius Dei.

Vulgate

And straightway in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.

ASV

And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the son of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εὐθέως
eutheos
adverb · 85×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κηρύσσω
kerusso
verb · 61×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
συναγωγή
sunagoge
noun · 56×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: Ἰησοῦν | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἰησοῦν | RP: χριστόν
  • ἸησοῦνSBLGNT
  • ἸησοῦνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • χριστόνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

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

§442Such is not the case for Simon Peter when he confesses Jesus as "the Christ, the Son of the living God", for Jesus responds solemnly: "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven."46 Similarly Paul will write, regarding his conversion on the road to Damascus, "When he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, w…
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

  • 1John 4:14 — And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
  • 2Cor 1:19 — For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
  • Acts 5:42 — And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 9:22 — But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
  • Acts 9:27 — But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the nam
  • Acts 13:5 — And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
  • Acts 13:14 — But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
  • Acts 14:1 — And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
  • Acts 17:2 — And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
  • Acts 17:17 — Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
  • Acts 19:8 — And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
  • Col 1:28 — Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • Gal 1:17 — Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
  • Gal 1:23 — But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
  • Gal 1:23 — But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
  • Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
  • Gal 2:20 — I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself fo
  • John 1:49 — Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
  • John 20:28 — And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
  • John 20:31 — But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
  • John 20:31 — But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
  • Mark 8:29 — And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
  • Matt 4:3 — And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  • Matt 16:16 — And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • Matt 26:63 — But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
  • Matt 27:43 — He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
  • Ps 2:7 — I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
  • Ps 2:12 — Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
  • Rom 1:4 — And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
  • Rom 16:25 — Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,