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B I ◄ ← Acts 15:31 ↓ → ► ≡ ═ ©
Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)
OET (OET-RV) and when they read it, they were very happy with the encouraging contents.![]()
OET-LV And having_read it, they_were_elated at the exhortation.![]()
SR-GNT Ἀναγνόντες δὲ, ἐχάρησαν ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει. ‡
(Anagnontes de, eⱪaraʸsan epi taʸ paraklaʸsei.)
Key: khaki:verbs, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
GHT On-the-other-hand, know[ing]-anew, they-are-joyed upon to {the call-aside-sis[i.e. state of calling aside]}.
ULT And having read it, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
UST When the believers there read the letter, they were glad, because its message encouraged them.
BSB & MSB [When] [the people] read [it], they rejoiced at [its] encouraging message.
BLB And having read it, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
AICNT And when they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
OEB and delivered the letter, the reading of which caused great rejoicing by its encouraging contents.
WEBBE & WMBB When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
NET When they read it aloud, the people rejoiced at its encouragement.
LSV and having read [it] they rejoiced for the consolation;
FBV After they had read it, the people were so happy for the encouraging message.
TCNT When the people read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement.
T4T When the believers there read the letter, they rejoiced, because its message encouraged them.
LEB And when they[fn] read it[fn] aloud, they rejoiced at the encouragement.
15:31 *Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“read … aloud”) which is understood as temporal
15:31 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
BBE And after reading it, they were glad of its comfort.
Moff On reading it the people rejoiced at the encouragement it brought;
Wymth The people read it, and were delighted with the comfort it brought them.
ASV And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.
DRA Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
YLT and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;
Drby And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.
RV And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.
SLT And having read, they rejoiced for the encouraging.
Wbstr Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
KJB-1769 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
KJB-1611 Which when they had read, they reioyced for the [fn]consolation.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)
15:31 Or, exhortation.
Bshps Which when they had read, they reioyced of the consolation.
(Which when they had read, they rejoiced of the consolation.)
Gnva And when they had read it, they reioyced for the consolation.
(And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.)
Cvdl Whan they had red it, they were glad of that cosolacion.
(When they had red it, they were glad of that consolation.)
TNT When they had redde it they reioysed of that consolacion.
(When they had red it they rejoiced of that consolation.)
Wycl which whanne thei hadden red, thei ioyden on the coumfort.
(which when they had red, they rejoiced on the comfort.)
Luth Da sie den lasen, wurden sie des Trostes froh.
(So they/she/them the read, became they/she/them the comfort(n) pleased/glad.)
ClVg Quam cum legissent, gavisi sunt super consolatione.
(How when/with they_would_have_read, I_rejoiced are over consolation.)
UGNT ἀναγνόντες δὲ, ἐχάρησαν ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει.
(anagnontes de, eⱪaraʸsan epi taʸ paraklaʸsei.)
SBL-GNT ἀναγνόντες δὲ ἐχάρησαν ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει.
(anagnontes de eⱪaraʸsan epi taʸ paraklaʸsei.)
RP-GNT Ἀναγνόντες δέ, ἐχάρησαν ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει.
(Anagnontes de, eⱪaraʸsan epi taʸ paraklaʸsei.)
TC-GNT ἀναγνόντες δὲ ἐχάρησαν ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει.
(anagnontes de eⱪaraʸsan epi taʸ paraklaʸsei.)
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, orange:accents differ (from our SR-GNT base).
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
ἐχάρησαν
˱they˲_˓were˒_elated
The pronoun they refers to the believers in Antioch. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [the believers in Antioch rejoiced]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀναγνόντες Δέ ἐχάρησαν ἐπί τῇ παρακλήσει)
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of encouragement, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [because they were so encouraged]
Acts 15
Paul’s first three missionary journeys originated from Antioch, one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire by Paul’s time. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator, it first served as the capital of the Seleucid Empire, and by the time of Paul it boasted a significant Jewish population. Decades earlier King Herod the Great of Judea had funded the building of a marble colonnaded street there that was nearly two miles (3.2 km) long. As persecuted followers of Jesus fled Judea, some of them traveled as far as Antioch. There they led many Jews and even Gentiles to become believers, and it was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first called “Christians” (Acts 11:19-26). Antioch was also the starting point for Paul’s first three missionary journeys (Acts 13:1-3; 15:36-41; 18:22-23). After Paul’s first missionary journey, some people came to Antioch from Judea and began to teach that all believers–Jews and Gentiles–must be circumcised and follow the laws of Moses (Acts 15:1). But Paul and Barnabas argued against them. So the church in Antioch sent Paul and Barnabas and other leaders to Jerusalem to discuss this issue with the apostles and elders there. As they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria on their way to Jerusalem, they told others (presumably Jewish believers) about the conversion of many Gentiles to the faith, and all the believers rejoiced with them. After Paul and the other leaders arrived in Jerusalem and were warmly received by the church there, their reports about the conversion of Gentiles led some believers from the sect of the Pharisees to insist that these new believers be circumcised and follow the laws of Moses. After much debate about the matter, the apostles and elders in Jerusalem decided that Gentile believers did not need to follow the laws of Moses except for a few critical requirements: that they abstain from sacrifices made to idols, from blood, from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. Then the Jerusalem church sent Paul and the other leaders back to Antioch with a letter stating this decision. After Paul and the others arrived in Antioch and delivered the letter, the church in Antioch rejoiced. Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch and continued to teach the believers there. Sometime after this Paul and a believer named Silas embarked on a second missionary journey to visit the churches that Paul had helped to found during his first missionary journey, and Barnabas took his relative John Mark to minister in his home region of Cyprus.