Acts 5:37
'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;This verse in the real world
Where
In what words
- ἀπογραφήapographḗan enrollment; by implication, an assessment
- ΓαλιλαῖοςGalilaîosGalilean or belonging to Galilea
- ἀφίστημιaphístēmito remove, i.e. (actively) instigate to revolt; usually (reflexively) to desist, desert, e
- κἀκεῖνοςkakeînoslikewise that (or those)
- ὀπίσωopísōto the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun)
- ἸούδαςIoúdasJudas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and
- ἱκανόςhikanóscompetent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character)
- πείθωpeíthōto convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fa
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- Quirinius, the census, and a date that will not settleDisputedRoman provincial censuses are well documented, and Quirinius is a real governor with a datable census — but that census falls about a decade after Herod's death, and the two datings have not been reconciled.
Cross-references
Luk 2:1–2, Job 20:5–9, Psa 7:14–15, Mat 26:52, Psa 9:15–16, Luk 13:1–2