Teks -- Acts 20:26 (NET)

20:26 Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 20:26 - I testify

I testify ( marturomai ).

Elsewhere in the N.T. only in Paul’ s Epistles (Gal 5:3; Eph 4:17; 1Th 2:12). It means "I call to witness"while martureō means "I bear witness."

Robertson: Act 20:26 - This day

This day ( en tēi sēmeron hēmerāi ).

The today day, the last day with you, our parting day.

Robertson: Act 20:26 - I am pure from the blood of all men

I am pure from the blood of all men ( katharos eimi apo tou haimatos pantōn ).

Paul was sensitive on this point as in Corinth (Act 18:6). It is much for any preacher to claim and it ought to be true of all. The papyri also give this use of apo with the ablative rather than the mere ablative after katharos .

Robertson: Act 20:26

@@Act 20:27 Paul here repeats the very words and idioms used in Act 20:20, adding "the whole counsel of God"(pāsan tēn boulēn tou theou ). All the counsel of God that concerned Paul’ s work and nothing inconsistent with the purpose of God of redemption through Christ Jesus (Page).

Vincent: Act 20:26 - This day

This day ( τῇ σήμερον ἡμέρᾳ )

Very forcible. Lit., on to-day's day; this, our parting day.

JFB: Act 20:25-27 - 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.

JFB: Act 20:26 - I am pure from the blood of all men

(Act 18:6; and compare 1Sa 12:3, 1Sa 12:5; Eze 3:17-21; Eze 33:8-9).

Clarke: Act 20:26 - I am pure from the blood of all

I am pure from the blood of all - If any man, Jew or Gentile, perish in his sins, his blood shall be upon him; he, alone, shall be accessary to his own perdition. I am blameless, because I have fully shown to both the way to escape from every evil.

Calvin: Act 20:26 - Wherefore I take you to record // I am clean from the blood

26.Wherefore I take you to record It is all one as if he had said, I call you to witness, or I call you to bear witness before God and his angels. And this doth he not so much for his own cause, as that he may prescribe unto them their duty with greater authority. Furthermore, this place containeth a brief sum of teaching rightly and well, and it exhorteth the teachers themselves, vehemently and sharply, that they be diligent in their function. What order must pastors then keep in teaching? First, let them not esteem at their pleasure what is profitable to be uttered and what to be omitted; but let them leave that to God alone to be ordered at his pleasure. So shall it come to pass that the inventions of men shall have none entrance into the Church of God. Again, mortal man shall not be so bold as to mangle the Scripture and to pull it in pieces, that he may diminish − ⁴³¹ this or that at his pleasure, that he may obscure something and suppress many things; but shall deliver whatsoever is revealed in the Scripture, though wisely and seasonably for the edifying of the people, yet plainly and without guile, as becometh a faithful and true interpreter of God. I said that wisdom must be used, because we must always have respect unto profit, so there be no subtilty used, wherein many take too great delight, when as they turn and wrest the word of God unto their methods, and forge to us a certain kind of philosophy mixed of the gospel and their own inventions; namely, because this mixture is more delectable. Thence have we free will, thence the deserts of works, thence the denial of the providence and free election of God. And that which we said even now is to be noted, that the counsel of God, whereof Paul maketh mention, is included in his word, and that it is to he sought nowhere else. −

For many things are kept from us in this life, the perfect and full manifestation whereof is deferred until that day, wherein we shall see God as he is, with new eyes, face to face ( 1Co 13:12). Therefore, those do set forth the will of God who interpret the Scriptures faithfully, and out of them instruct the people in the faith, in the fear of God, and in all exercises of godliness. And, as we said of late, that those are condemned by this sentence, who, disputing philosophically, lest they should teach anything which is removed from the common sense of men, and therefore odious, do corrupt with their leaven the purity of the Scripture; so, both sharply and sore, doth Paul thunder against them, who, for fear of the cross and persecution, do speak only doubtfully and darkly. − ⁴³² −

I am clean from the blood I do not doubt but that he had respect unto the place of Ezekiel, where God denounceth that his prophet shall be guilty of the blood of the wicked unless he exhort them unto repentance ( Eze 3:18). For upon this condition doth he appoint pastors over his Church, that if anything perish through their negligence, an account may be required at their hands; yea, that unless they show the way of salvation without guile and crooks, the destruction of those who go astray may be imputed unto them. Those men must needs be wonderful dull whom such a sharp threatening cannot awake. Wherefore the epicurish impiety of the Popish clergy doth the more bewray itself, where, though they craik and brag − ⁴³³ of their honorable titles, yet they think no more upon giving of an account for so many souls which perish, than if there sat no Judge in heaven, neither is their ungodliness any whit less filthy before the whole world, in that being given only to devour sheep, − ⁴³⁴ they usurp the name of pastors. Furthermore, the Lord showeth how dear souls be to him, seeing that he doth so sharply punish the pastor’s sluggishness for their destruction; but we see what small account many men make of their own salvation, for which even God himself doth vouchsafe to be careful.

Defender: Act 20:26 - pure from the blood

Paul is probably referring here to the principle in Eze 3:17-21."

TSK: Act 20:26 - I take // that

I take : Job 16:19; Joh 12:17, Joh 19:35; Rom 10:2; 2Co 1:23, 2Co 8:3; 1Th 2:10-12

that : Act 18:6; 2Sa 3:28; Eze 3:18-21, Eze 33:2-9; 2Co 7:2; 1Ti 5:22

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 20:26 - I take you to record // I am pure from the blood of all men

I take you to record I testify and affirm unto you; and I dare appeal unto yourselves concerning it.

I am pure from the blood of all men from the guilt of destroying their souls; none of them have perished through my fault, having faithfully showed unto them the way of life, and earnestly persuaded them to walk in it. Thus, according as the Lord told Ezekiel, Eze 3:19 , the prophet that hath warned the wicked man, hath delivered his own soul.

Gill: Act 20:26 - Wherefore I take you to record this day // that I am pure from the blood of all men

Wherefore I take you to record this day,.... This is a solemn appeal to the elders of the church at Ephesus, who knew his doctrine and manner of life for a considerable time among them:

that I am pure from the blood of all men: or "of you all", as some copies, and the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; which seems most natural, since they could only bear a testimony for him with respect to themselves, and the people at Ephesus, where he had so behaved both in the faithful discharge of his ministry, and in his exemplary life and conversation; as that the ruin and destruction of no one of them could be laid to his charge, or any one perish for want of knowledge, or through any negligence of his; see Eze 33:6.