What Does John 14:27 Mean?
Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.
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King James wording
King James Version
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.THE KEY
The peace Jesus leaves is wholeness from a different source, so the world’s way of giving does not define your heart.
THE MEANING
Wholeness is a gift that remains with you even while the world gives and takes on its own terms. Your heart’s agitation and fear are real, but they do not get to define what holds you together. This verse speaks into your unsettled place now with a peace that is already given.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that peace can exist only after everything around you becomes calm.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace, concord, and well-being: a condition of wholeness.
English “peace” can sound like a temporary feeling of calm. The repeated εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness) names a larger well-being that Jesus both leaves with you and gives to you; the world’s way of giving is not its measure.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To live at peace; to be at peace.
εἰρηνεύω
The word family describes peace as a way of being, not only a passing feeling.
eirēnikos: Peaceable; relating to peace.
εἰρηνικός
This branch carries the same wholeness into the character of what makes for peace.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness is received as God’s sustaining gift and can guard the heart even when outward conditions remain unsettled.
You will keep in wholeness upon wholeness the one whose shaped mind rests upon you, for in you he leans his full weight.And the wholeness of God, which overhangs all understanding, will garrison your hearts and perceptions in Jesus the Anointed One.THE THREAD
These things have I spoken to you, so that in me you may have wholeness. In the world you have pressure, but take heart; I have overcome the world.This verse repeats εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness) and places it beside tribulation. The shared word makes clear that the peace Jesus gives does not depend on the world becoming calm.
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