What Does Acts 28:10 Mean?
Who also honored us with many honors, and when we put out, they loaded us with such things as were needed.
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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
Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.THE KEY
Here, honor becomes something you can carry: the travelers’ worth is shown in what they leave with.
THE MEANING
Regard takes material shape when people meet the needs in front of them. The provisions go with the travelers and sustain the next stretch of their way. The verse speaks now wherever welcome includes what is actually needed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that honor is only praise or status: here, honor arrives as needed goods placed into the travelers’ hands.
THE ROOT
ἐτίμησαν
etimēsan
GROWS FROM
τιμ-
tim-
To set a value on; to esteem or honor.
The verb translated “honoured” belongs to a word family whose sense includes value and price. The travelers’ worth is recognized not only in words, but in resources they can carry away.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Value, price, honor
τιμή
This noun names the esteem behind the honor shown to the travelers, with the added sense of assigning worth.
timios: Precious, costly, valued
τίμιος
This branch makes the link between honor and worth visible: what is honored is treated as precious.
THE PATTERN
Regard for another becomes tangible when it meets their needs along the way.
And I will take a morsel of bread, and prop up your hearts. After that you shall pass on, for therefore you have crossed over to your servant. And they said, So you shall make it, as you have spoken.Nor a bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff, for the worker is owed his food.Who have borne witness to your love before the assembly, whom you will do well to send on their way in a manner that matches the weight of God.THE THREAD
Coming to him, as to a living stone, tested and set aside by men, but chosen by God and precious,The Greek word ἔντιμον (entimon, “precious”) belongs to the τιμ- (tim-, “value, esteem”) word family behind ἐτίμησαν (etimēsan, “they honored”) in Acts. In Acts, worth is shown through provisions; in Peter, the same family describes what is precious.
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