Acts 20:26 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 20:26

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

BSB

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ASV

Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

KJV

Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

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Commentary

2 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts (1107)

"Clean," he says, "am I from the blood of all," if you are weighed down by sleep and die at the hands of the murderer of souls, because I have fulfilled the duty of a teacher, "for I did not shrink from declaring to you …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am pure from the blood of all - If any man, Jew or Gentile, perish in his sins, his blood shall be upon him; he, alone, shall be accessary to his own perdition. I am blameless, because I have fully shown to both the way to escape from every evil.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 289: “The Minister's Farewell” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1859)

WHEN Paul was parting from his Ephesian friends, who had come to bid him farewell at Miletus, he did not request of them a commendation of his ability; he did not request of them a recommendation for his fervid eloquence, his profound learning, his comprehensive thought, or his penetrating judgment. He knew right well that he might have credit for all these, and yet be found a castaway at last. He required a witness which would be valid in the court of heaven, and of value in a dying hour.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I know that ye all . . . shall see my face no more--not an inspired prediction of what was certainly to be, but what the apostle, in his peculiar circumstances, fully expected. Whether, therefore, he ever did see them again, is a question to be decided purely on its own evidence.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διότι	dioti	therefore	G1360 →
μαρτύρομαι	marturomai	I testify	G3143 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
σήμερον	sēmeron	this	G4594 →
ἡμέρᾳ	hēmera	day	G2250 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
καθαρός	katharos	innocent	G2513 →
εἰμι	eimi	I am	G1510 →
ἀπὸ	apo	of	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
αἵματος	aimatos	blood	G129 →
πάντων·	pantōn	of all;	G3956 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 18:6
But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to…
leads to
- Ezekiel 33:4
  Then if anyone hears the sound of the horn but fails to heed the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.
- 2 Samuel 1:16
  For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
- Ezekiel 33:8–9
  If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity,…
- Ezekiel 18:13
  He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Acts 13:51
  So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
Through
John 12:17
Meanwhile, many people continued to testify that they had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead.
leads to
- 1 John 5:9–12
  Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
- Revelation 1:2
  who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
- Acts 1:22
  beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts