Bible Strands
Acts 3:26
When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Peter addresses the assembled Jews at the temple, identifying them as the covenant lineage of Abraham and the prophets. He positions Jesus as the fulfillment of their own Scripture.
The words — paida (παῖδα, "servant") names Jesus in the role of the divine agent; prōton (πρῶτον, "first") implies a subsequent sending beyond this audience.
The thread — The "servant" language echoes the Moses prophecy in Acts 3:22 and the sin-removing mission in Matthew 1:21 and 1 John 3:5.
Why it lands — The verse closes with a demand: turning from wicked ways is the expected response to the Servant's blessing, not an optional addendum.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Cross-references
- Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 John 3:5 But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Jude 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
- Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Acts 3:25 And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
- Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
- Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,