secundum Lucam 20:26

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quapropter contestor vos hodierna die, quia mundus sum a sanguine omnium.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et post dies octo, iterum erant discipuli ejus intus, et Thomas cum eis. Venit Jesus januis clausis, et stetit in medio, et dixit : Pax vobis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
quapropter contestor vos hodierna die, quia mundus sum a sanguine omnium;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I take: Job 16:19, John 12:17, John 19:35, Romans 10:2, 2 Corinthians 1:23, 2 Corinthians 8:3, 1 Thessalonians 2:10-12

that: Acts 18:6, 2 Samuel 3:28, Ezekiel 3:18-21, Ezekiel 33:2-9, 2 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Timothy 5:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:1 - shall bear Deuteronomy 22:8 - thou bring Joshua 2:19 - his blood 2 Samuel 1:16 - Thy blood 1 Kings 22:14 - what the Lord 2 Kings 9:17 - a watchman 2 Chronicles 18:7 - me Psalms 40:10 - not hid Psalms 51:14 - bloodguiltiness Proverbs 14:25 - General Isaiah 21:10 - that which Isaiah 58:1 - spare Jeremiah 13:20 - where Jeremiah 38:21 - this is Jeremiah 42:19 - know Jeremiah 42:21 - I have Ezekiel 2:4 - Thus Ezekiel 3:11 - speak Ezekiel 3:19 - but thou Ezekiel 33:4 - his blood Ezekiel 33:7 - thou shalt Ezekiel 33:8 - that wicked Ezekiel 33:9 - thou hast Ezekiel 34:2 - feed Matthew 10:14 - shake Mark 6:18 - It is Acts 4:11 - you Acts 4:29 - that 2 Corinthians 2:16 - the savour of death 1 Timothy 4:16 - thou shalt James 3:1 - knowing 1 Peter 5:2 - which is among you

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Ezekiel 33:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - In view of the past, of my ministry and labors among you, I appeal to your own selves to testify that I have been faithful.

I take you to record - Greek: I call you to witness. 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 themselves 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 often used in the sense of “death, of bloodshed”; and hence, of the “guilt or crime of putting one to death,” Matthew 23:35; Matthew 27:25; Acts 5:28; Acts 18:6. It here means that if they should die the second death; if they should be lost forever, 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 people - 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 20:26. 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.