What Does Acts 14:7 Mean?
And there they brought the good news.
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 there they preached the gospel.THE KEY
The Greek packs “preached the gospel” into one verb: announcing good news is already making it present there.
THE MEANING
The good news reaches you as an announcement, not just an idea. Its voice belongs in the place you occupy now; its arrival takes the form of being spoken there.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελιζόμενοι
euangelizomenoi
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
The stem carries the sense of announcing, telling, or reporting a message.
“brought the good news” in this verse is euangelizomenoi. English separates the act of preaching from the gospel being preached, but the Greek verb joins them: it means announcing good news. With “there,” the place is more than a backdrop, the announcement is happening in that very place.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This is the message named within the verb: the good news is what is being announced.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The messenger belongs to the same announce-and-carry-a-message word family.
angelia: message, report
ἀγγελία
This branch makes the spoken content visible: good news arrives as a message.
THE PATTERN
Good news becomes present as it is announced in the place where people are.
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.The breath of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the emptied. He has sent me to heal the shattered in heart, to herald release to the captives, and the return of sight for the blind, to send the crushed away into release.But the word of the Lord remains for the ages. And this is the word that was brought to you as good news.THE THREAD
And how will they herald unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!Romans uses the same good-news word family, then gives the announcement feet. That makes “there” in Acts concrete: the good news is carried into the place where it is spoken.
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