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NowδὲinἘνtheseταύταιςdaysταῖς ἡμέραιςprophetsπροφῆταιcame downκατῆλθονfromἀπὸJerusalemἹεροσολύμωνtoεἰςAntioch.Ἀντιόχειαν
Acts 11:27
Study it in the app“Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.”
With the Greek beneath
Acts 11:27, word by word
- daysἡμέραιςhēmerais
lifetime
The time or the years of someone's life.
Where else “hēmerais” appears- prophetsπροφῆταιprophētai
prophet
Someone who speaks for God.
Where else “prophētai” appears- came downκατῆλθονkatēlthon
come down
Come down, go down from a higher place.
Where else “katēlthon” appears- JerusalemἹεροσολύμωνHierosolymōn
Jerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “Hierosolymōn” appears- AntiochἈντιόχειανAntiocheian
Antioch
See it on the mapWhere else “Antiocheian” appears
Places in this verse
1Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
2Antioch
Today: Antakya (Antioch on the Orontes), Turkey
An important city of Syria, about 15 miles (25 km) inland from the Mediterranean, in present-day Turkey. There was another Antioch in Pisidia, in central Turkey today.
There the disciples were first called "Christians" (Acts 11:26). The assembly sent Paul and Barnabas out from there on their first journey (Acts 13:1-3).
The context
26and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened that for a whole year they met together with the assembly and taught a large crowd; and the disciples were called Christians for the first time in Antioch.
27 · This verse (above)
28And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was going to come over all the inhabited world; and this took place in the time of Claudius.
To study Acts 11 in a group
1. What it says
When Peter is criticized in Jerusalem, how does he respond, and what do they do when they hear him? (vv. 2-18)
2. What it means
What does Barnabas do on arriving in Antioch, and what does he then do about Saul? (vv. 22-26)
3. How I live it
The disciples in Antioch sent help to the brothers in Judea who needed it (vv. 27-30). Whom far away could you help?