What Does Acts 14:25 Mean?
And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia.
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
And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:THE KEY
The good news is carried: it is spoken in Perga, then the movement continues toward Attalia.
THE MEANING
A spoken message reaches a real place and keeps moving beyond it. Perga receives the word, while the route carries it onward to Attalia; the message is present both in its announcement and in its movement.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελισάμενοι
euangelisamenoi
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
Announcement or message-bearing; with εὖ (eu, good), the word names announcing good news.
“spoken” in this verse is euangelisamenoi. “Preached” carries the sense of announcing good news, a word-family connected with the messenger. The verse joins that announcement to actual movement between places: the message is carried, not held in the abstract.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: good news; gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This noun shares the announcement family and names the message being carried.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
This branch reveals the message-bearing sense inside the act of proclaiming.
THE PATTERN
The announced word moves through places as people carry and voice it.
The Lord gives the word; the ones who bring good news are a great army.And he said to them, "Let us go into the neighboring towns, so that I may herald there also, for this is why I came out."And the word of the Lord was carried through all the region.THE THREAD
And they, when they had borne witness and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and brought the good news to many villages of the Samaritans.Acts 14:25 and Acts 8:25 use the same Greek word, λόγος (logos), for “word.” Here the word moves from Perga toward Attalia; there, it is carried through many villages, making the movement within proclamation visible.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us