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This manτοῦτονGodὁ θεὸςraisedἤγειρενon the thirdτῇ τρίτῃdayἡμέρᾳandκαὶgrantedἔδωκενhimαὐτὸνto becomeγενέσθαιvisible,ἐμφανῆ
Acts 10:40
Study it in the app“This man God raised on the third day and granted him to become visible,”
With the Greek beneath
Acts 10:40, word by word
- Godθεὸςtheos
God
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theos” appears- raisedἤγειρενēgeiren
raise
To come back to life after death.
Where else “ēgeiren” appears- on the thirdτρίτῃtritēi
third
The one after the second; above all, the third day.
Where else “tritēi” appears- dayἡμέρᾳhēmerai
day
A span counted on the calendar: “on the third day,” “forty days.”
Where else “hēmerai” appears- grantedἔδωκενedōken
grant
To let someone do something.
Where else “edōken” appears- to becomeγενέσθαιgenesthai
become
To turn into something new, different from before.
Where else “genesthai” appears- visibleἐμφανῆemphanē
visible, revealed
Visible, revealed, openly shown.
Where else “emphanē” appears
The context
39And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; him they even killed by hanging him on a wooden beam.
40 · This verse (above)
41not to all the people but to witnesses who had been chosen beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
To study Acts 10 in a group
1. What it says
What vision does Cornelius have, and what vision does Peter have? What are they each asked to do? (vv. 3-16)
2. What it means
Peter says God shows no partiality (vv. 34-35). How did what Peter experienced change what he understood?
3. How I live it
Are there people you tend to keep at a distance? What small step could you take toward one of them?