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Acts 1

Acts 1:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The former
men (Greek #3303)
properly, indicative of affirmation or concession (in fact); usually followed by a contrasted clause with 1161 (this one, the former, etc.)
KJV usage: even, indeed, so, some, truly, verily. Often compounded with other particles in an intensive or asseverative sense.
Pronounce: men
Origin: a primary particle
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
protos (Greek #4413)
foremost (in time, place, order or importance)
KJV usage: before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former.
Pronounce: pro'-tos
Origin: contracted superlative of 4253
treatise
logos (Greek #3056)
something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ)
KJV usage: account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Pronounce: log'-os
Origin: from 3004
b have I made
poieo (Greek #4160)
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
KJV usage: abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield. Compare 4238.
Pronounce: poy-eh'-o
Origin: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary
, O
o (Greek #5599)
as a sign of the vocative case, O; as a note of exclamation, oh
KJV usage: O.
Pronounce: o
Origin: a primary interjection
Theophilus
Theophilos (Greek #2321)
friend of God; Theophilus, a Christian
KJV usage: Theophilus.
Pronounce: theh-of'-il-os
Origin: from 2316 and 5384
, of
peri (Greek #4012)
properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period)
KJV usage: (there-)about, above, against, at, on behalf of, X and his company, which concern, (as) concerning, for, X how it will go with, ((there-, where-)) of, on, over, pertaining (to), for sake, X (e-)state, (as) touching, (where-)by (in), with. In comparative, it retains substantially the same meaning of circuit (around), excess (beyond), or completeness (through).
Pronounce: per-ee'
Origin: from the base of 4008
all
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
that
hos (Greek #3739)
the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
KJV usage: one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who(-m, -se), etc. See also 3757.
Pronounce: hos
Origin: ἥ (hay), and neuter ὅ (ho) probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article 3588)
Jesus
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
Iesous (Greek #2424)
Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
KJV usage: Jesus.
Pronounce: ee-ay-sooce'
Origin: of Hebrew origin (03091)
began
archomai (Greek #756)
to commence (in order of time)
KJV usage: (rehearse from the) begin(-ning).
Pronounce: ar'-khom-ahee
Origin: middle voice of 757 (through the implication, of precedence)
both
te (Greek #5037)
both or also (properly, as correlation of 2532)
KJV usage: also, and, both, even, then, whether. Often used in composition, usually as the latter participle.
Pronounce: teh
Origin: a primary particle (enclitic) of connection or addition
to do
poieo (Greek #4160)
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
KJV usage: abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield. Compare 4238.
Pronounce: poy-eh'-o
Origin: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary
and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
teach
didasko (Greek #1321)
to teach (in the same broad application)
KJV usage: teach.
Pronounce: did-as'-ko
Origin: a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb δάω (to learn)
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Luke 1:1‑4• 1Forasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a relation concerning the matters fully believed among us,
 2as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,
 3it has seemed good to *me* also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus,
 4that thou mightest know the certainty of those things in which thou hast been instructed. (Luke 1:1‑4)
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The Lord Jesus,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-9:  Christ, preparing his apostles to the beholding of his ascension, gathers them together unto the mount Olivet, commands them to expect in Jerusalem the sending down of the Holy Ghost, promises after a few days to send it, and ascends into heaven in their sight.
10-11:  After his ascension they are warned by two angels to depart, and to set their minds upon his second coming.
12-26:  They accordingly return, and, giving themselves to prayer, choose Matthias apostle in the place of Judas.
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Luke 1:24• 24Now after these days, Elizabeth his wife conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, (Luke 1:24)
O Theophilus.
Luke 1:3• 3it has seemed good to *me* also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus, (Luke 1:3)
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Acts 2:22• 22Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know (Acts 2:22)
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Matt. 4:23‑24• 23And Jesus went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.
 24And his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them. (Matt. 4:23‑24)
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Matt. 11:5• 5Blind men see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings preached to them: (Matt. 11:5)
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Luke 7:21‑23• 21In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.
 22And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;
 23and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me. (Luke 7:21‑23)
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Luke 24:19• 19And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; (Luke 24:19)
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John 10:32‑38• 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?
 33The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
 35If he called *them* gods to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
 36do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?
 37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;
 38but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him. (John 10:32‑38)
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John 18:19‑21• 19The high priest therefore demanded of Jesus concerning his disciples and concerning his doctrine.
 20Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I taught always in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and in secret I have spoken nothing.
 21Why demandest thou of me? Demand of those who have heard, what I have spoken to them; behold, they know what I have said. (John 18:19‑21)
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1 Peter 2:21‑23• 21For to this have ye been called; for Christ also has suffered for you, leaving you a model that ye should follow in his steps:
 22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;
 23who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously; (1 Peter 2:21‑23)
• Chapter 1 gives us that which is connected with the Lord’s resurrection; chapters 2-12, that work of the Holy Spirit of which Jerusalem and the Jews were the center, but which branches out into the free action of the Spirit of God, independent of, but not separated from, the twelve, and Jerusalem as the center; chapter 13 and the succeeding chapters, the work of Paul, flowing from a more distinct mission from Antioch, chapter 15 connecting the two in order to preserve unity in the whole course. (“THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES” by J.N. Darby)
• It would seem that Theophilus had either ceased to hold a governorship (or whatever other public position—of a magisterial kind the inspired historian implies by the title “most excellent": cf. Acts 23:26; 24:3; 26:25, with Luke 1:3), or had become so matured in faith and so spiritual as to value title as little as position. (“Acts 1:1-11” by W. Kelly)
• What is commonly though not correctly called “the Acts of the Apostles"; for it is rather the inspired narrative of the risen Lord working in the energy of the Holy Ghost sent down from on high and witnessing to Him there. (“Acts 1:1-11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

W. Kelly Translation

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The first account I composed, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and teach,