ACTs 12:24 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST The believers continued telling God’s message to people in many places, and the number of people who believed in Jesus was continually increasing.

AICNT But the word of {God}[fn] grew and multiplied.

12:24, God: Some manuscripts read “Lord.”

OEB Meanwhile the Lord’s message kept extending, and spreading far and wide.

WEBBE But the word of God grew and multiplied.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

LSV And the word of God grew and multiplied,

FBV But the word of God spread, and more and more people believed.

TCNT But the word of [fn]God increased and multiplied.

12:24 God ¦ the Lord WH

T4T The believers continued telling God’s message to people in many places, and ◄the number of people who believed in Jesus was continually increasing/there were continually more and more people who were believing in Jesus►.

LEB But the word of God kept on increasing[fn] and multiplying.

12:24 *This imperfect verb has been translated as customary (“kept on increasing”)

BBE But the word of the Lord went on increasing.

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Wymth But God's Message prospered, and converts were multiplied.

ASV But the word of God grew and multiplied.

DRA But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied.

YLT And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

Drby But the word of [fn]God grew and spread itself.

12.24 Elohim

RV But the word of God grew and multiplied.

Wbstr But the word of God grew and multiplied.

KJB-1769 ¶ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

KJB-1611 ¶ But the word of God grewe, and multiplied.

Bshps And the worde of God grewe and multiplied.
(And the word of God grewe and multiplied.)

Gnva And the worde of God grewe, and multiplied.
(And the word of God grewe, and multiplied. )

Cvdl But the worde of God grewe, and multiplyed.
(But the word of God grewe, and multiplyed.)

TNT And the worde of God grewe and multiplied.
(And the word of God grewe and multiplied. )

Wyc And the word of the Lord waxide, and was multiplied.

Luth Das Wort Gottes aber wuchs und mehrete sich.
(The Wort God’s but wuchs and mehrete itself/yourself/themselves.)

ClVg Verbum autem Domini crescebat, et multiplicabatur.
(Verbum however Master crescebat, and multiplicabatur. )

UGNT ὁ δὲ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο.
(ho de logos tou Theou aʸuxanen kai eplaʸthuneto.)

SBL-GNT Ὁ δὲ λόγος τοῦ ⸀θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο.
(Ho de logos tou ⸀theou aʸuxanen kai eplaʸthuneto.)

TC-GNT Ὁ δὲ λόγος τοῦ [fn]Θεοῦ ηὔξανε καὶ ἐπληθύνετο.
(Ho de logos tou Theou aʸuxane kai eplaʸthuneto. )

12:24 θεου ¦ κυριου WH

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

ὁ & λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο

the & word ˱of˲_the ˱of˲_God /was/_growing and /was_being/_multiplied

Luke is expressing a single idea by using two verbs connected with and. The verb being multiplied tells in what way the word of God was increasing, that is, very rapidly. If it would be clearer in your language, you could express this same idea with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “the word of God was increasing very rapidly”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

ὁ & λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο

the & word ˱of˲_the ˱of˲_God /was/_growing and /was_being/_multiplied

Luke is speaking of the way the message about Jesus was becoming more widespread as if the word of God itself were increasing and being multiplied. Alternate translation: “more and more people were hearing and believing the word of God”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

ὁ & λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ

the & word ˱of˲_the ˱of˲_God

Luke is using the term word to mean the message about Jesus that God told the believers to spread by using words. Alternate translation: “the message about Jesus”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐπληθύνετο

/was_being/_multiplied

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “God was multiplying it”

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