CHAPTER 7 Defining Evangelizing - Evangelism Unlimited

368 Evangelizology
a) Consider the variations in the English translations of euvaggeli,zw (verb without
predicate) into English:
(1) No verb:
(a) “news,” Isa 52:7 (2) (NLT)
(2) Verb only:
(a) “Are evangelized,” Luke 7:22 (Eng Darby)
(b) “Evangelizing,” Luke 8:1 (Douay-Rheims)
(c) “Preached,” Luke 3:18 (Eng Gen); Acts 5:42 (KJV); “Preaching,” Acts 8:40 (Eng Gen)
[1] “Preach” is the second most common translation today, especially when the text
supplies a word for the message
(d) “Publishing,” Luke 8:1 (Eng Gen)
(3) Non-proclamational verb with noun:
(a) “Bring glad tidings,” Rom 10:15 (NAS)
(b) “Bring good news,” Luke 1:19 (NAS), 2:10 (NAS); “Brought good news,” 1 Thess 3:6
(NAS)
(c) “Giving the good news,” Luke 8:1 (Bible in Basic Eng)
(d) “Receiue the Gospel” (Eng Gen), Matt 11:5; Luke 7:22
(e) “Showing the glad tidings,” Luke 8:1 (Webster’s)
(f) “Spread the good news,” Acts 8:12 (God’s Word to the Nations)
(4) Proclamational verb with noun:
(a) “Announcing the glad tidings,” Luke 8:1; 9:6; 20:1 (Eng Darby)
(b) “Preach the gospel” (NAS), Luke 4:18, Acts 14:7, 15, 16:10, Rom 1:15, 15:20, 1 Cor
1:17, 9:16, 16, 18, 2 Cor 10:16; “Preached the gospel” (NAS), Luke 3:18, Acts 14:21, 2
Cor 11:7 , Gal 3:8, 4:13, 1 Pet 1:12
[1] “Preach the Gospel” is by far the most common translation of euvaggeli,zw today,
especially when no noun is provided for the message.
(c) “Proclaim good news,” Luke 4:18 (ESV); Luke 4:43 (HCS)
(d) “Telling the good news,” Luke 20:1 (NRSV)
b) A look at the NASB translations of euvaggeli,zw (sometimes with associated nouns):
(1) Non-proclamational verb with noun:
(a) “Bring glad tidings of good things,” Rom 10:15
[MT adds a second verb here, omitted in the Nestle-Aland tradition]
(b) “Bring good news,” Luke 1:19, 2:10
(c) “Brought us good news,” 1 Thess 3:6 [not directly an evangelistic context]
(2) Proclamational with no noun supplied by translators:
(a) “As he preached,” Rev 10:7
(b) “That which we have preached,” Gal 1:8 (2)
(3) Proclamational (only) with noun in context:
(a) Noun in context is “gospel”:
[1] “Having an eternal gospel to preach,” Rev 14:6
[2] “Preached the gospel,” 2 Cor 11:7
[3] “The gospel which I preached,” 1 Cor 15:1
[4] “The gospel which was preached by me,” Gal 1:11
(b) Noun in context is Christ or Jesus:
[1] “Preach Him,” Gal 1:16
[2] “Preach … the unfathomable riches of Christ,” Eph 3:8
[3] “Preached Jesus,” Acts 8:35
[4] “Preaching Jesus and the resurrection,” Acts 17:18
[5] “Preaching Jesus as the Christ,” Acts 5:42
[6] “Preaching the Lord Jesus,” Acts 11:20
(c) Noun in context is “the word”:
[1] “The word which was preached to you,” 1 Pet 1:25
[2] “The word which I preached,” 1 Cor 15:2
[3] “Preaching the word,” Acts 8:4
[4] “Preaching … the word of the Lord,” Acts 15:35