One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Hermes. Every Hermes in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Acts 14:12
- last named
- Acts 14:12
Description
Hermes in the text
Hermes, a Greek god, is mentioned once in the New Testament in Act.14.12. According to Greek mythology, Hermes was the son of Zeus and the messenger of the gods, associated with eloquence, diplomacy, and commerce.
In the context of Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas were preaching in the city of Lystra, where they healed a man who had been lame from birth (Act.14.8-10). The people of Lystra, witnessing this miracle, believed that the gods had come down to them in human form. They identified Barnabas as Zeus, the chief god in the Greek pantheon, and Paul as Hermes, because he was the chief speaker (Act.14.11-12).
This incident highlights the challenge faced by early Christian missionaries as they proclaimed the gospel in a culture steeped in polytheistic beliefs. The people of Lystra, unfamiliar with the concept of the one true God, attempted to interpret the miracle and the message of Paul and Barnabas through the lens of their own religious understanding.
Paul and Barnabas, however, quickly rejected the people's attempt to worship them as gods, tearing their clothes and urging the crowd to turn from worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth (Act.14.14-18). This event underscores the importance of clear communication and contextualization when presenting the gospel message to those from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Paul1 event
The pattern
Where Hermes is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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