ACTS 20:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
'I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus' — The core kerygma combines metanoia (turning toward God through repentance) and pistis (faith in Christ). The both/and inclusivity (Jews and Greeks) marks the gospel's universal address.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:21
See him, hasting to sail by, and yet not overlooking them, but taking order for all. Having sent for the rulers, through those he discourses to them (the Ephesians): but it is worthy of admiration, how finding himself under a necessity of saying certain great things about himself, he tries to make the least he can of it (πειρἅτα μετριάζειν). You know. For just as Samuel, when about to deliver up the government to Saul says in their presence, Have I taken anything of your…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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