What Does Acts 26:27 Mean?
King Agrippa, do you lean your weight on the prophets? I know that you do.
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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
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.THE KEY
The repeated word for trust turns belief from a bare opinion into something you lean your weight on.
THE MEANING
The question reaches the reader now: do you trust the prophets? Trust means more than agreeing that their words are true; it is leaning your full weight on their witness. The verse places that trust in the open by asking about it directly and naming it as known.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It unsettles the idea that trust in the prophets can remain a label untouched by what their testimony says.
THE ROOT
πιστεύεις
pisteueis
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, reliance; placing confidence in someone or something.
“lean your weight on” in this verse is pisteueis. The same verb appears in both the question and the answer: trust is asked about, then recognized. Its word family connects reliance with firmness, showing that belief here is more than holding an opinion, it is leaning on a witness.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance
πίστις
This noun names the trust the verse asks about: a person’s reliance on the prophets’ testimony.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy
πιστός
This branch links trust with steadiness, revealing belief as a relationship with a witness one relies on.
THE PATTERN
Trust in a witness becomes visible in how a person receives that witness’s words.
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear and respond to me, O Judah, and you who settle in Jerusalem. Lean your full weight upon the LORD your God, and you will be made steady. Lean your full weight upon his prophets, and you will break through.And he leaned his weight on the LORD, and he counted it to him as alignment.But not all have heard and responded to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has trusted what we heard?THE THREAD
For if you had leaned your full weight on Moses, you would have leaned it on me, for he wrote about me.The same verb, πιστεύω (pisteuō; trust, rely), appears twice in the connected verse. It shows how trust in a prophet reaches into the testimony that prophet gives.
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