Acts 20:26
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Acts 20:26 in other translations
| BSB | Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. |
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| WEB | Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men, |
| ASV | Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. |
| YLT | wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all, |
| DARBY | Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all, |
| BBE | And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men. |
| Webster | Wherefore I call you to witness this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. |
What does Acts 20:26 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 20:25-27
25-27. I know that ye all ... shall see my face no more--not an inspired prediction of what was certainly to be, but what the apostle, in his peculiar circumstances, fully expected. Whether, therefore, he ever did see them again, is a question to be decided purely on its own evidence.
Barnes' Notes
I take you to record. Greek, I call you to witness; I appeal to you to testify. If any of you are lost, if you prove unfaithful to God, I appeal to yourselves that the fault is not mine. It is well when a minister can make this appeal, and call his hearers to bear testimony to his own faithfulness. Ministers who preach the gospel with fidelity, may thus appeal to their hearers; and in the day of judgment may call on them to witness that the fault of the ruin of the soul is not to be charged to them.
That I am pure. I am not to be charged with the guilt of your condemnation, as owing to my unfaithfulness. This does not mean that he set up a claim to absolute perfection; but that, in the matter under consideration, he had a conscience void of offence.
The blood of all men. The word blood is used often in the sense of death, of blood shed; and hence of the guilt or crime of putting one to death, or condemnation for it, Mt 23:35, 27:25, Acts 5:28, 18:6. It here means, that if they should die the second death, if they should be lost for ever, he would not be to blame. He had discharged his duty, in faithfully warning and teaching them; and now, if they were lost, the fault would be their own, not his.
All men. All classes of men--Jews and Gentiles. He had warned and instructed all alike. Ministers may have many fears that their hearers will be lost. Their aim, however, should be
(1.) to save them, if possible; and
(2.) if they are lost, that it should be by no neglect or fault of theirs.
(*) "record" "declare to you" (c) "pure from the blood" 2Cor 7:2
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 20:17-27
The elders knew that Paul was no designing, self-seeking man. Those who would in any office serve the Lord acceptably, and profitably to others, must do it with humility. He was a plain preacher, one that spoke his message so as to be understood. He was a powerful preacher; he preached the gospel as a testimony to them if they received it; but as a testimony against them if they rejected it. He was a profitable…
Acts 20:26 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 20:26
- Acts 18:6
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
- John 12:17
The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
- Ezekiel 3:18-21
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
- Ezekiel 33:2-9
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. …
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
- 2 Corinthians 7:2
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
- 2 Corinthians 8:3
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
- 2 Corinthians 1:23
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
- Romans 10:2
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 3:28
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
- John 19:35
And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
- Job 16:19
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
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Context
- Acts 20:25
And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
- Acts 20:26
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
- Acts 20:27
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Acts 20:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por tanto, yo os protesto el día de hoy, que yo soy limpio de la sangre de todos: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est pourquoi je vous prends aujourd’hui à témoin, que je suis net du sang de tous; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deshalb bezeuge ich euch an dem heutigen Tage, daß ich rein bin von dem Blute aller; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quapropter contestor vos hodierna die, quia mundus sum a sanguine omnium. |