What Does Acts 10:36 Mean?
The word which God sent to the children of Israel, bringing good news of wholeness through Jesus the Anointed One; he is Lord of all.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)THE KEY
God sends wholeness through Jesus, and names the one through whom it comes Lord of all.
THE MEANING
God’s word reaches you now as an announcement of wholeness through Jesus, whom the verse names Lord of all. The verse names the children of Israel and, in the same sentence, calls Jesus Lord of all; its claim reaches you, too.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that God’s message belongs only to Israel: the same verse declares Jesus Lord of all.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Wholeness, concord, peace
“bringing good news of wholeness” in this verse is eirēnē. Here peace names what the sent word announces: wholeness. Its word-family reaches into making peace and peaceable life, giving that wholeness a relational shape.
ALSO GROWS
eirēnopoieō: Make peace
εἰρηνοποιέω
The announcement of wholeness is linked to making peace, so it includes the mending of relationships.
eirēnikos: Peaceable, marked by peace
εἰρηνικός
This branch shows wholeness as a quality that can mark a person or way of life.
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), from στέλλω (stellō)
Send forth, dispatch
God’s word is portrayed as dispatched, with direction and reach. The same word-family names both the one sent and the act of sending, joining the message, its bearer, and its movement.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: Messenger, one sent
ἀπόστολος
The message’s movement can also be carried by a person sent to bear it.
apostolē: Sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch names the act of sending that gives the word its outward direction.
εὐαγγελιζόμενος
euangelizomenos
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel-
Good news; announcing good news
“bringing good news of wholeness” in this verse is euangelizomenos. The verb translated “preaching” means announcing good news; here the news is wholeness through Jesus. The sent word arrives as a specific announcement, rather than as an abstract idea.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: Good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This noun names the announcement carried by the preaching in the verse.
euangelistēs: Announcer of good news
εὐαγγελιστής
This branch names the person who carries that announcement.
THE PATTERN
God’s announcement of wholeness moves outward, gathering those near and far under one lordship.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes wholeness heard, who brings good news of good, who makes deliverance heard, who says to Zion, Your God governs.For there is no drawing apart between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich toward all who call upon him.And he came and brought good news of wholeness to you who were far off, and wholeness to those near.THE THREAD
And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.Both verses use λόγος (logos, word). Acts shows the word sent and announced through Jesus; John says the Word becomes flesh and dwells among us, so the message of wholeness is encountered in a person.
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