Act 3:13 | RWP | e4.org | His servant Jesus ( τον παιδα Ιησουν ). This phrase occurs in ; about the Messiah except the name "Jesus" which Peter adds, the first part of the quotation is from ; . The LXX translated the Hebrew ebhedh by παις , the servant of Jehovah being a Messianic designation. But the phrase "servant of God" ( παις θεου ) is applied also to Israel ( ) and to David ( ; ). Paul terms himself δουλος θεου ( ). Παις is just child (boy or girl), and it was also used of a slave ( , , ). But it is not here υιος (son) that Peter uses, but παις . Luke quotes Peter as using it again in this Messianic sense in ; , . Whom ye delivered up ( ον υμεις μεν παρεδωκατε ). Note emphatic use of υμεις (ye). No δε to correspond to μεν . First aorist active ( κ aorist) plural indicative of παραδιδωμ (usual form παρεδοτε , second aorist). When he ( εκεινου ). Emphatic pronoun, that one, in contrast with "ye" ( υμεις ), genitive absolute with κριναντος , here the nearest word (Pilate), the latter.

‏ Acts 3:13

His servant Jesus ( τον παιδα Ιησουν ). This phrase occurs in Isa 42:1; 52:13 about the Messiah except the name "Jesus" which Peter adds, the first part of the quotation is from Ex 3:6; 5:30. The LXX translated the Hebrew ebhedh by παις, the servant of Jehovah being a Messianic designation. But the phrase "servant of God" ( παις θεου ) is applied also to Israel (Lu 1:54) and to David (Lu 1:69; Ac 4:25). Paul terms himself δουλος θεου (Tit 1:1). Παις is just child (boy or girl), and it was also used of a slave (Mt 8:6, 8, 13). But it is not here υιος (son) that Peter uses, but παις. Luke quotes Peter as using it again in this Messianic sense in Ac 3:26; 4:27, 30.

Whom ye delivered up ( ον υμεις μεν παρεδωκατε ). Note emphatic use of υμεις (ye). No δε to correspond to μεν. First aorist active ( κ aorist) plural indicative of παραδιδωμ (usual form παρεδοτε, second aorist).

When he ( εκεινου ). Emphatic pronoun, that one, in contrast with "ye" ( υμεις ), genitive absolute with κριναντος, here the nearest word (Pilate), the latter.