Công Vụ 18:6
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
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Study Note
Paul's dramatic gesture of shaking out his garments and declaring 'your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles' invokes the prophetic tradition of symbolic action and oath-of-disavowal (Ezekiel 3:18–19; 33:4–6: the watchman's responsibility ends with warning). The phrase 'your blood be upon your own heads' transfers legal-moral responsibility for the consequences of rejection from Paul to his audience, mirroring the moral accounting of Matthew 27:25 but in a missionary rather than legal context. The turn to the Gentiles in Corinth parallels the pattern established in Pisidian Antioch (13:46) and anticipates Rome (28:28), creating a structural pattern in Acts of Jewish rejection → Gentile mission that Luke deploys to explain the shape of early Christian expansion. The verse is important for understanding how Acts theologizes the relationship between Jewish unresponsiveness and Gentile receptivity.
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And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
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And when they put themselves against him, and said evil words, he said, shaking his clothing, Your blood be on your heads, I am clean: from now I will go to the Gentiles.
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