Evangelizology: The 55 uses of εὐαγγελίζω in the New Testament

What if your Bible read like this? …

Translating the 25/26 uses εὐαγγελίζω as evangelize in Luke-Acts

Luke 1:19, “And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; and I have been sent to speak to you, and to evangelize this thing.”

Luke 2:10, “And the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for behold, I evangelize you a great joy which shall be for all the people.’”

Luke 3:18, “So with many other exhortations also he [John the Baptist] evangelized the people.”

Luke 4:18, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to evangelize the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are downtrodden.”

Luke 4:43, “But He [Jesus] said to them, “I must evangelize the kingdom of God to other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.”

Luke 7:22, “And He answered and said to them, ‘Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor are evangelized.’”

Luke 8:1, “And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and evangelizing the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with Him.”

Luke 9:6, “And departing, they began going about among the villages evangelizing and healing everywhere.”

Luke 16:16, “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is evangelized, and everyone is forcing his way into it.”

Luke 20:1, “And it came about on one of the days while He was teaching the people in the temple and evangelizing, that the chief priests and the scribes with the elders confronted Him.”

Acts 5:42, “And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and evangelizing Jesus as the Christ.”

Acts 8:4, “Therefore, those who had been scattered went about evangelizing the word.”

Acts 8:12, “But when they believed Philip evangelizing about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.”

Acts 8:25, “And so, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were evangelizing the many villages of the Samaritans.”

Acts 8:35, “And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he evangelized him about Jesus.”

Acts 8:40, “But Philip found himself at Azotus; and as he passed through he kept evangelizing all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.”

Acts 10:36, “The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, evangelizing peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all).”

Acts 11:20, “But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, evangelizing the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 13:32, “And we evangelize you of the promise made to the fathers.”

Acts 14:5-7, “And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them, they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region; and there they continued to evangelize.”

Acts 14:15, “And saying, ‘Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and evangelize you in order that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.’”

Acts 14:21, “And after they had evangelized that city and had made [won] many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.”

Acts 15:35, “But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and evangelizing, with many others also, the word of the Lord.”

Acts 16:10, “And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to evangelize them.”

[Acts 16:17, “Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, ‘These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are evangelizing to you the way of salvation.’” (from a variant found only in Codex Bezae)]

Acts 17:18, And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, ‘What would this idle babbler wish to say?’ Others, ‘He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,’— because he was evangelizing Jesus and the resurrection.’”

Or consider these 22/23 Pauline uses of εὐαγγελίζω

Rom 1:15, “Thus, for my part, I am eager to evangelize you also who are in Rome.”

Rom 10:15, “And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who evangelize peace, who evangelize good things!’”

Rom 15:20, “And thus I aspired to evangelize, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man’s foundation.”

1 Cor 1:17, “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void.”

1 Cor 9:16, “For if I evangelize, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not evangelize.”

1 Cor 9:18, “What then is my reward? That, when I evangelize, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.”

1 Cor 15:1-2, “Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel by which I evangelized you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word by which I evangelized you, unless you believed in vain.”

2 Cor 10:16, “So that we may evangelize regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.”

2 Cor 11:7, “Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I evangelized the gospel of God to you without charge?”

Gal 1:8-9, “But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should evangelize you contrary to how we evangelized you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is evangelizing contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.”

Gal 1:11, “Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel which I evangelize is not based on a human point of view.”

Gal 1:16, “to reveal His Son in me, that I might evangelize Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood”

Gal 1:23, “they simply kept hearing: ‘He who formerly persecuted us now evangelizes the faith he once tried to destroy.’”

Gal 4:13, “but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I evangelized you the first time.”

Eph 2:17, “And He came and evangelized peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near”

Eph 3:8, “This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints!—to evangelize to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah.”

1 Thess 3:6, “But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has evangelized us of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you”

Heb 4:2, “For indeed we were evangelized, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard”

Heb 4:6, “Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly were evangelized failed to enter because of disobedience”

Εὐαγγελίζω in other portions

Matt 11:5, “The blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor are evangelized.”

1 Pet 1:12, “It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who evangelized you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look”

1 Pet 1:25, “‘but the word of the Lord endures forever.’ And this is the word by which you were evangelized.”

1 Pet 4:6, “For this purpose those who are dead have been evangelized, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.”

Rev 10:7, “but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He evangelized His servants the prophets”

Rev 14:6, “And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to evangelize to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.”

Oh the power of this one verb to mobilize God's people to action!

Friday, December 29, 2017

The 55 uses of εὐαγγελίζω in the New Testament

What if your Bible read like this? …

Translating the 25/26 uses εὐαγγελίζω as evangelize in Luke-Acts

Luke 1:19, “And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; and I have been sent to speak to you, and to evangelize this thing.”

Luke 2:10, “And the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for behold, I evangelize you a great joy which shall be for all the people.’”

Luke 3:18, “So with many other exhortations also he [John the Baptist] evangelized the people.”

Luke 4:18, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to evangelize the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are downtrodden.”

Luke 4:43, “But He [Jesus] said to them, “I must evangelize the kingdom of God to other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.”

Luke 7:22, “And He answered and said to them, ‘Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor are evangelized.’”

Luke 8:1, “And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and evangelizing the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with Him.”

Luke 9:6, “And departing, they began going about among the villages evangelizing and healing everywhere.”

Luke 16:16, “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is evangelized, and everyone is forcing his way into it.”

Luke 20:1, “And it came about on one of the days while He was teaching the people in the temple and evangelizing, that the chief priests and the scribes with the elders confronted Him.”

Acts 5:42, “And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and evangelizing Jesus as the Christ.”

Acts 8:4, “Therefore, those who had been scattered went about evangelizing the word.”

Acts 8:12, “But when they believed Philip evangelizing about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.”

Acts 8:25, “And so, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were evangelizing the many villages of the Samaritans.”

Acts 8:35, “And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he evangelized him about Jesus.”

Acts 8:40, “But Philip found himself at Azotus; and as he passed through he kept evangelizing all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.”

Acts 10:36, “The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, evangelizing peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all).”

Acts 11:20, “But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, evangelizing the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 13:32, “And we evangelize you of the promise made to the fathers.”

Acts 14:5-7, “And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them, they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region; and there they continued to evangelize.”

Acts 14:15, “And saying, ‘Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and evangelize you in order that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.’”

Acts 14:21, “And after they had evangelized that city and had made [won] many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.”

Acts 15:35, “But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and evangelizing, with many others also, the word of the Lord.”

Acts 16:10, “And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to evangelize them.”

[Acts 16:17, “Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, ‘These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are evangelizing to you the way of salvation.’” (from a variant found only in Codex Bezae)]

Acts 17:18, And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, ‘What would this idle babbler wish to say?’ Others, ‘He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,’— because he was evangelizing Jesus and the resurrection.’”

Or consider these 22/23 Pauline uses of εὐαγγελίζω

Rom 1:15, “Thus, for my part, I am eager to evangelize you also who are in Rome.”

Rom 10:15, “And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who evangelize peace, who evangelize good things!’”

Rom 15:20, “And thus I aspired to evangelize, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man’s foundation.”

1 Cor 1:17, “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void.”

1 Cor 9:16, “For if I evangelize, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not evangelize.”

1 Cor 9:18, “What then is my reward? That, when I evangelize, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.”

1 Cor 15:1-2, “Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel by which I evangelized you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word by which I evangelized you, unless you believed in vain.”

2 Cor 10:16, “So that we may evangelize regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.”

2 Cor 11:7, “Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I evangelized the gospel of God to you without charge?”

Gal 1:8-9, “But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should evangelize you contrary to how we evangelized you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is evangelizing contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.”

Gal 1:11, “Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel which I evangelize is not based on a human point of view.”

Gal 1:16, “to reveal His Son in me, that I might evangelize Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood”

Gal 1:23, “they simply kept hearing: ‘He who formerly persecuted us now evangelizes the faith he once tried to destroy.’”

Gal 4:13, “but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I evangelized you the first time.”

Eph 2:17, “And He came and evangelized peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near”

Eph 3:8, “This grace was given to me—the least of all the saints!—to evangelize to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah.”

1 Thess 3:6, “But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has evangelized us of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you”

Heb 4:2, “For indeed we were evangelized, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard”

Heb 4:6, “Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly were evangelized failed to enter because of disobedience”

Εὐαγγελίζω in other portions

Matt 11:5, “The blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor are evangelized.”

1 Pet 1:12, “It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who evangelized you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look”

1 Pet 1:25, “‘but the word of the Lord endures forever.’ And this is the word by which you were evangelized.”

1 Pet 4:6, “For this purpose those who are dead have been evangelized, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.”

Rev 10:7, “but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He evangelized His servants the prophets”

Rev 14:6, “And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to evangelize to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.”

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