What Does Acts 15:27 Mean?
So we have sent Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by word.
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
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.THE KEY
The message does not stop at being sent; it arrives in the voices of messengers who speak the same things.
THE MEANING
The message reaches you through named voices that make it audible and present. Their spoken report carries the same things entrusted to them, so what is sent also arrives in direct speech.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message automatically loses its trustworthiness when another person carries it.
THE ROOT
ἀπαγγέλλω
apangellō
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
Messenger; announcing or reporting a message.
The Greek word makes “tell” a messenger’s act: carrying a report onward. Here, the spoken words keep the message already sent present and recognizable.
ALSO GROWS
messenger: A messenger; one who carries a message.
ἄγγελος
The noun names the role behind the verb: Judas and Silas speak as messengers carrying an entrusted report.
proclaim: Announce, declare, or proclaim.
καταγγέλλω
The same ἀγγελ- family presents speech as a message being announced outward.
good news: Good news; gospel.
εὐαγγέλιον
This word also belongs to the announcement family, showing how the message is carried through speech.
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
GROWS FROM
στελλ-
stell-
Send or dispatch.
Sending and telling work together: people are dispatched to voice the message entrusted to them. The send-family also gives us the word for an apostle, a person who is sent.
ALSO GROWS
apostle: One sent; an envoy.
ἀπόστολος
The noun names a person by the sending that defines their role, like Judas and Silas here.
sending: A sending, commission, or mission.
ἀποστολή
This branch makes the act of dispatching visible as a defined task carried by a person.
THE PATTERN
A message entrusted to a messenger becomes present through the words that messenger speaks.
And now go, and I will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you will speak.Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.So we are sent in the place of the Anointed One, as though God were urging you through us. We beg you in his place. Be exchanged back to God.THE THREAD
Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.“Hath sent me” uses ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, “send forth”), the same verb behind “we have sent” here. The verse traces how a message moves through successive messengers and reaches people in a living voice.
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