What Does John 11:46 Mean?
But some of them went away to the separated ones, and told them what Jesus had done.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.THE KEY
What is done does not stay in the moment: witnesses carry it onward, making a deed into evidence before power.
THE MEANING
Some who see what Jesus does carry the account to the Pharisees; the deed moves from sight into speech and reaches those with authority. The verse speaks now wherever a witnessed act is carried to people who can shape its meaning.
THE ROOT
ἐποίησεν
epoiēsen
GROWS FROM
ποι
ποι (poi) means “make, do, bring about”; ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen) means “he did” or “he made.”
The English “done” can make the act sound closed and past, while the Greek verb holds doing and making together. The verse places the deed beside its circulation: what Jesus brings about becomes something witnesses carry onward.
ALSO GROWS
poiéō: to do, make
ποιέω
This is the verb’s dictionary form, holding together the doing and making conveyed by “had done.”
poiēma: a thing made, a work
ποίημα
It shows the same root naming the result of an act, as the witnesses report what Jesus has brought about.
poiētēs: a maker, doer
ποιητής
This branch names one who acts, drawing attention to the deed and the one whose work is being reported.
THE PATTERN
A witnessed act becomes testimony when people carry it into speech.
Come and hear, all you who stand in awe of God, and I will recount what he has done for my living soul.He answered, Whether he misses the mark or not, I do not know. One thing I know, that I was blind, and now I see.For we cannot keep from speaking what we have perceived and heard.THE THREAD
Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything from himself, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son likewise does.The same Greek verb appears in both verses: ποιέω (poiéō), “do” or “make.” John 5:19 places Jesus’ doing in relation to what he sees the Father do; John 11:46 shows that this doing becomes visible and is carried forward by witnesses.
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