Grow With MeBible
Grow With Me

Acts 4:11

“This one is the stone that was despised by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.”

Acts 4:11 · direct translation from the Greek
Study it in the app

With the Greek beneath

11

Quotation · Psalms 118:22

Go to Psalms 118:22

Psalm 118:22 is quoted: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Peter says “despised by you, the builders.”

See the original texts

Greek of the New Testament: οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ λίθος ὁ ἐξουθενηθεὶς ὑφ’ ὑμῶν τῶν οἰκοδόμων ὁ γενόμενος εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας

Hebrew (Masoretic text): אֶבֶן מָאֲסוּ הַבּוֹנִים הָיְתָה לְרֹאשׁ פִּנָּה

Septuagint (Psalms 117:22 in the Septuagint numbering): λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες, οὗτος ἐγενήθη εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας·

In the Septuagint verse that most resembles it, at most 3 consecutive words match the Greek of the NT. The transcription has reading errors, so a match may not show.

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

Acts 4:11, word by word

isἐστινestin

be

To be: says who or what something is.

Where else “estin” appears
the stoneλίθοςlithos

living stone

The Messiah as the main stone of the building; believers, as living stones.

Where else “lithos” appears
despisedἐξουθενηθεὶςexouthenētheis

despise

Despise, treat as nothing, look down on.

Where else “exouthenētheis” appears
has becomeγενόμενοςgenomenos

become

To turn into something new, different from before.

Where else “genomenos” appears
the headκεφαλὴνkephalēn

cornerstone

The main cornerstone.

Where else “kephalēn” appears
of the cornerγωνίαςgōnias

corner

Corner.

Where else “gōnias” appears

Translation note

Psalm 118:22.

Parallel passages

Other books that tell the same thing or quote these words.

Quotation · Psalms 118:22

Psalm 118:22 is quoted: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Peter says “despised by you, the builders.”

See them side by side

Acts 4:11

11This one is the stone that was despised by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.

Psalms 118:22

22The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

The context

10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus the Messiah the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands before you well.

11 · This verse (above)

12And there is salvation in no other one, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

Read all of Acts 4

To study Acts 4 in a group

  1. 1. What it says

    Peter and John are questioned by the council. What do they say, and what do the rulers notice about them? (vv. 8-13)

  2. 2. What it means

    Why do Peter and John answer that they cannot stop speaking about what they saw and heard? (vv. 19-20)

  3. 3. How I live it

    The believers were of one heart, and no one lacked anything (vv. 32-35). Whom around you could you help today in a concrete way?

How to use it