Acts 20:30

Acts 20:30 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• New International Version (NIV)Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Context of Acts 20:30

28“Take care of yourselves and all the flock of which the Ruach ha-Kodesh has made you overseers, to shepherd the community of God—which He obtained with the blood of His own. 29I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Even from among yourselves will arise men speaking perversions, to draw the disciples away after themselves. 31Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning you with tears. 32“Now I commit you to God and the word of His grace, which is strong to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who have been made holy.

Acts 20:30 word by word

καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήσονται ἄνδρες λαλοῦντες διεστραμμένα τοῦ ἀποσπᾶν τοὺς μαθητὰς ὀπίσω αὐτῶν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• ofἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• own selvesαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• shallἀνήρanēr · manG435
• ariseἀνίστημιanistēmi · to ariseG450
• speakingλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
• perverse thingsδιαστρέφωdiastrephō · to pervertG1294
• to draw awayἀποσπάωapospaō · to draw awayG645
• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• afterὀπίσωopisō · afterG3694

Cross-references for Acts 20:30

• Matthew 26:21As they were eating, He said, “Amen, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
• 1 Timothy 1:19holding onto faith and a good conscience. By rejecting these, some have suffered shipwreck regarding their faith.
• 2 Timothy 2:17and their words will spread like cancer. Among them are Hymeneaus and Philetus—
• 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled.
• 2 Peter 2:1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
• 1 John 2:19They left us, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us so it became clear that none of them belongs to us.
• 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah coming in human flesh. This one is a deceiver and the anti-messiah.
• Jude 1:4For certain people have secretly slipped in—those who from long ago have been marked out for this judgment. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into indecency and deny our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.
• Revelation 2:6“Yet you have this going for you, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
• Proverbs 19:1Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.
• Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things. Your heart will utter perverse things.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
• 1 Timothy 5:13And at the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house—and not just idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, saying things they should not.
• 1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
• 2 Peter 2:18For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
• Jude 1:15to execute judgment against all. He will convict all the ungodly for all their ungodly deeds that they have done in an ungodly way, and for all of the harsh things ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Commentaries on Acts 20:30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30Also of your own selves, etc. - From out of your own assembly shall men arise, speaking perverse things, teaching for truth what is erroneous in itself, and perversive of the genuine doctrine of Christ crucified. To draw away disciples - To make schisms or rents in the Church, in order to get a party to themselves. See, here, the cause of divisions in the Church: The superintendents lose the life of God, neglect the souls of the people, become greedy of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Also of your own selves - From your own church; from those who profess to. be Christians. Speaking perverse things - Crooked, perverted, distracting doctrines ́ diestrammenaCompare the notes on Acts 13:10. They would proclaim doctrines tending to distract and divide the church. The most dangerous enemies which the church has had have been nurtured in its own bosom, and have consisted of those who have perverted the true doctrines of the gospel. Among the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 28-38Verses 28-38 If the Holy Ghost has made ministers overseers of the flock, that is, shepherds, they must be true to their trust. Let them consider their Master's concern for the flock committed to their charge. It is the church He has purchased with his own blood. The blood was his as Man; yet so close is the union between the Divine and human nature, that it is there called the blood of God, for it was the blood of Him who is God. This put such dignity…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-30savage wolves: Paul’s prophecy did in fact happen, prompting him to write to Timothy in Ephesus some five years later (see 1 Timothy 1:3–7, 19–20; 4:1–5; see also Matthew 7:15; 10:16; Mark 13:22; Luke 10:3; 2 Peter 2:1–22; 3:3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 29-3029-30. after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you--Two classes of coming enemies are here announced, the one more external to themselves, the other bred in the bosom of their own community; both were to be teachers, but the one, "grievous wolves," not sparing, that is, making a prey of the flock; the other (Ac 20:30), simply sectarian "perverters" of the truth, with the view of drawing a party after them. Perhaps the one pointed to that…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings