Acts 18:5
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.”
Χριστός
The one set apart and equipped for a specific task. Oil was poured on kings, priests and prophets in the Old Testament — the anointing meant: this one is chosen, this one is sent. Jesus stands up in Nazareth and reads Isaiah — and then says: this is Me. I am the one sent.
λόγος
word
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λόγος
In Greek thought, the logos was the rational principle holding the universe together. John opens his Gospel with this word — not as a concept, but as a person. In the beginning was the Word. Before anything existed, the Word already was.
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Ἰουδαῖος
Jews
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Ἰουδαῖος
Jewish, belonging to Judah. Ioudaios. Salvation is from the Jews. God chose a people to bring the Messiah into the world. His choice of Israel was for the benefit of all nations.
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Ἰησοῦς
Jesus.
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Ἰησοῦς
Jesus. Iesous. The Greek form of Yeshua meaning the LORD saves. The name given before His birth. In His name is salvation healing and authority over every power of darkness.
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συνέχω
was occupied
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συνέχω
to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner); figuratively, to compel, perplex, afflict, preoccupy
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Παῦλος
Paul
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Παῦλος
(little; but remotely from a derivative of G3973 (παύω), meaning the same); Paulus, the name of a Roman and of an apostle
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διαμαρτύρομαι
earnestly testifying
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διαμαρτύρομαι
to attest or protest earnestly, or (by implication) hortatively
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τέ
both
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τέ
both or also (properly, as correlation of G2532 (καί))
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κατέρχομαι
came down
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κατέρχομαι
to come (or go) down (literally or figuratively)
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Τιμόθεος
Timothy,
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Τιμόθεος
dear to God; Timotheus, a Christian
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Μακεδονία
Macedonia
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Μακεδονία
Macedonia, a region of Greece
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Σίλας
Silas
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Σίλας
Silas, a Christian
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εἶναι
to be
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εἶναι
to exist
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