King James Version
Acts 13:26 in the King James Version says “Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salv...” — study this verse from Acts chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.”
Acts 13:26 · KJV
When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and brethren”
G80a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like g0001)
“children”
G5207a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship
“of the stock”
G1085"kin" (abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective)
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“feareth”
G5399to frighten, i.e., (passively) to be alarmed; by analogy, to be in awe of, i.e., revere
“God”
G2316a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)
“the word”
G3056something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a
“is”
G649set apart, i.e., (by implication) to send out (properly, on a mission) literally or figuratively
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