What Does Acts 26:30 Mean?
And when he had thus spoken, the king stood up, and the one who leads ahead, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
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King James Version
And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:THE KEY
The king’s ordinary rising uses the same Greek word family that names resurrection, so this small change of posture carries the language of rising.
THE MEANING
As the speech ends, the gathered bodies rise together. Their shared change of posture marks a passage from listening to leaving, while the word for their rising echoes a larger language of rising.
THE ROOT
ἀνέστη
anéstē
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι (histēmi), with ἀνά (aná)
Stand; set upright. With ἀνά, the verb carries the sense of standing or rising up.
“stood up” in this verse is anéstē. The verb here, ἀνέστη (anéstē), means “rose up” and belongs to the family of ἀνίστημι (anístēmi), “rise” or “stand up.” That family also gives ἀνάστασις (anástasis), “resurrection,” joining ordinary standing and rising from death in one verbal thread.
ALSO GROWS
anístēmi: Rise, stand up, or raise
ἀνίστημι
This is the verb family behind the king and the others rising from their seats.
anástasis: Resurrection; a rising
ἀνάστασις
This noun carries the same language of rising into the idea of resurrection.
THE PATTERN
In this Greek word family, rising marks a passage from one state into another.
And at once the little girl rose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were beside themselves beyond measure.And he said to them, Thus it has been written, that the Anointed One must suffer, and stand up from among the dead on the third day.Jesus said to her, I am the rising, and the life. Whoever leans their weight into me, even if they die, will live.THE THREAD
And he said to them, Thus it has been written, that the Anointed One must suffer, and stand up from among the dead on the third day.Acts 26:30 uses the Greek verb ἀνέστη (anéstē, “rose up”); Luke’s “to rise” belongs to the same verb family. Here people stand from their seats; there the risen one comes out from death, and the shared root joins both acts in one language of rising.
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