ACTs 17:26 Parallel Verse View

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ULT And from one he made every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their habitation,

UST In the beginning, God created one couple, and from them God produced all the people groups that now live everywhere on the earth. God determined where and when each people group would live.

BSB From one man [fn] He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

17:26 Literally From one; BYZ and TR From one blood

BLB And He made from one man every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

AICNT And he made from one [[blood]][fn] every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,

17:26, blood: Some manuscripts include.

OEB He made all races of the earth’s surface – fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements –

WEBBE He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

LSV He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—

FBV From one man he made all the peoples who live on the earth, and decided beforehand when and where they should live.

TCNT From one [fn]bloodline he created every nation of mankind to dwell on the entire face of the earth. He determined their [fn]appointed times and the boundaries of where they would dwell,

17:26 bloodline 95% ¦ man CT 4.4%

17:26 appointed ¦ preappointed TR

T4T In the beginning, God created one couple, and from them God produced all ◄the ethnic groups/the nations► that now live everywhere on the earth. He also decided where each ethnic group of people should live and how long they should live there.

LEB And he made from one man every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining their fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation,

BBE And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

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Wymth He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries of their homes;

ASV and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

DRA And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation.

YLT He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth — having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings —

Drby and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

RV and he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

Wbstr And hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

KJB-1769 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
(And hath/has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath/has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; )

KJB-1611 And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation:
(And hath/has made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye/you_all face of the earth, and hath/has determined the times before appointed, and also the boundes of their habitation:)

Gnva And hath made of one blood all mankinde, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordeined before, and the boundes of their habitation,
(And hath/has made of one blood all mankind, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath/has assigned the seasons which were ordained before, and the boundes of their habitation, )

Cvdl and hath made of one bloude all the generacion of men to dwell vpo all the face of ye earth: and hath assygned borders appoynted before, how longe and farre they shulde dwell,
(and hath/has made of one blood all the generation of men to dwell upo all the face of ye/you_all earth: and hath/has assygned borders appointed before, how long and far they should dwell,)

TNT and hath made of one bloud all nacions of men for to dwell on all the face of the erthe and hath assigned before how longe tyme and also the endes of their inhabitacion
(and hath/has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath/has assigned before how long time and also the endes of their inhabitacion )

Wycl and made of oon al the kinde of men to enhabite on al the face of the erthe, determynynge tymes ordeyned, and termes of the dwellynge of hem,
(and made of one all the kinde of men to enhabite on all the face of the earth, determynynge times ordained, and termes of the dwelling of them,)

Luth Und hat gemacht, daß von einem Blut aller Menschen Geschlechter auf dem ganzen Erdboden wohnen, und hat Ziel gesetzt, zuvor versehen, wie lang und weit sie wohnen sollen,
(And has made, that from one blood aller Menschen Geschlechter on to_him entire Erdboden reside, and has Ziel sett, zuvor versehen, like lang and weit they/she/them reside sollen,)

ClVg fecitque ex uno omne genus hominum inhabitare super universam faciem terræ, definiens statuta tempora, et terminos habitationis eorum,[fn]
(fecitque from uno omne genus of_men into_live over the_whole face terræ, definiens statuta tempora, and terminos habitationis their, )

17.26 Ex uno omne genus hominum. In Græco: ex uno sanguine, quia sanguis propaginem carnis designat, et per carnem homo intelligitur.

17.26 From uno omne genus of_men. In Græco: ex uno sanguine, because sanguis propaginem carnis designat, and through carnem human intelligitur.

UGNT ἐποίησέν τε ἐξ ἑνὸς, πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ παντὸς προσώπου τῆς γῆς, ὁρίσας προστεταγμένους καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν,
(epoiaʸsen te ex henos, pan ethnos anthrōpōn katoikein epi pantos prosōpou taʸs gaʸs, horisas prostetagmenous kairous kai tas horothesias taʸs katoikias autōn,)

SBL-GNT ἐποίησέν τε ἐξ ⸀ἑνὸς πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ ⸂παντὸς προσώπου⸃ τῆς γῆς, ὁρίσας προστεταγμένους καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν,
(epoiaʸsen te ex ⸀henos pan ethnos anthrōpōn katoikein epi ⸂pantos prosōpou⸃ taʸs gaʸs, horisas prostetagmenous kairous kai tas horothesias taʸs katoikias autōn,)

TC-GNT ἐποίησέ τε ἐξ ἑνὸς [fn]αἵματος πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων, κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ [fn]πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς, ὁρίσας [fn]προστεταγμένους καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν·
(epoiaʸse te ex henos haimatos pan ethnos anthrōpōn, katoikein epi pan to prosōpon taʸs gaʸs, horisas prostetagmenous kairous kai tas horothesias taʸs katoikias autōn; )

17:26 αιματος 95% ¦ — CT 4.4%

17:26 παν το προσωπον ¦ παντος προσωπου CT

17:26 προστεταγμενους ¦ προτεταγμενους TR

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

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

The Unknown God

When Paul spoke to the Areopagus, the “high council of the city” of Athens (Acts 17:19), he was speaking to people who did not share his faith in the God of Abraham and Moses who had revealed himself “many times and in many ways to [his] ancestors through the prophets” (Heb 1:1). The members of his audience had a very different definition of the divine. A host of divinities inhabited their world, and the common people retained much of their belief in the ancient gods. But many of the cultural elite of Athens no longer believed in the gods in any literal sense. Instead, they held to either a form of materialism (the physical is everything) or pantheism (the divine inhabits everything).

What they all shared in common was the absence of the idea that there is one true God who is Lord of all. Their myths told of the activities of various gods, but they did not have faith that the ultimate reality, God himself, could be known. Instead, they reasoned and discussed “the latest ideas,” hoping for a better understanding of the nature of things.

There were a wide variety of philosophical ideas current in Athens when Paul visited, but two main schools of thought dominated, Stoicism and Epicureanism (Acts 17:18).

Zeno of Citium (334~262 BC) founded Stoicism. Stoics studied nature’s laws and believed in the Logos, a pervasive organizing and sustaining force that gives all things their essential nature and so gives life and reason to humanity. The good life is one in which reason rules, and peace of mind and harmony with nature prevail. Many prominent statesmen were Stoics or influenced by Stoicism, including Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Stoic ideas proved attractive to some Christians because of the similarities between the Stoic logos and the divine Logos (John 1:1-18), and between the idea of natural law and the law of God.

Those who followed Epicurus (341–270 BC) were empiricists; they relied upon sense experience (as opposed to reason) for knowledge. Epicureans were concerned with natural evidence and were unenthusiastic about mathematics. Their focus was ethics, the study of right behavior; they judged the value of an action or thing in terms of the pleasure or pain it brought. Epicurus saw belief in gods (meddling and powerful beings who terrified ordinary mortals) as a serious threat to tranquility. For him and his followers, neither the gods nor death (which is the end) should be feared.

When Paul spoke in that context, he used their own poets to proclaim things that they could barely comprehend: That the God who made everything is both personal and knowable; that he revealed himself clearly, historically, and definitively in Jesus Christ; that death is not followed by either the cessation of existence or the migration of the soul, but by judgment; and that the proof of all of this is the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

What was foolishness to most of the Greeks of Athens turns out to be the ultimate truth: God is knowable, and can be known through Jesus Christ.

Passages for Further Study

Ps 50:7-15; Isa 42:5-7; Acts 17:16-32; Rom 1:18-32; Col 1:15-23; 2:6-12; 1 Thes 1:9-10; Heb 1:1-4

Parallel ACTs 17:26