What Does John 16:14 Mean?
He will lift up my weight, because he will take hold of what is mine and bring word back to you.
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
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.THE KEY
The Spirit gives weight to Jesus by receiving what is his and making it known to you.
THE MEANING
The Spirit makes Jesus’ weight known to you by taking what belongs to Jesus and declaring it to you. What is shared comes from Jesus and reaches you as something made known now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the Spirit’s message is detached from Jesus: the Spirit makes Jesus weighty by declaring what belongs to him.
THE ROOT
δοξάσει
doxasei
GROWS FROM
δοξ-/δοκ-
Honor, reputation, what is recognized or esteemed; the established rendering of doxa as “weight” gives this recognition a sense of substance.
“lift up my weight” in this verse is doxasei. The word translated “glorify” belongs to the family of doxa: honor, reputation, glory. The Spirit gives Jesus weight by making what is his known, so this glory is revealed through shared understanding.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Honor, reputation, glory; weight.
δόξα
This is the noun behind the verb “glorify,” showing that Jesus’ weight is what the Spirit makes known.
doxazō: To honor, glorify, give weight.
δοξάζω
The verb describes the Spirit’s action in the verse: Jesus is honored as what belongs to him is declared.
λήμψεται
lēmpsetai
GROWS FROM
λαβ-/λημψ-
To take or receive.
“take hold of what is mine” in this verse is lēmpsetai. The verb holds receiving and taking together. What the Spirit communicates is received from Jesus; it is not presented as an unrelated message.
ALSO GROWS
paralambanō: Receive, take along.
παραλαμβάνω
This related verb keeps the sense of taking something received onward, illuminating the movement from Jesus to the Spirit.
katalambanō: Grasp, take hold of.
καταλαμβάνω
This branch shows the family’s concrete sense of taking hold, beneath the English “receive.”
ἀναγγελεῖ
anangelei
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
To announce or report; to make known.
“bring word back to you” in this verse is anangelei. The word translated “shew” is a declaring verb, from the word family associated with a messenger. The Spirit’s action is to carry what belongs to Jesus into what you can know.
ALSO GROWS
angellō: Announce, report.
ἀγγέλλω
This related verb makes clear that “shew” here means declaring a message.
angelos: Messenger.
ἄγγελος
The messenger shares the same word family, revealing the movement of a message from its source to its hearer.
THE PATTERN
What is received from God becomes known through the one who speaks it.
I raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I set my words in his mouth, and he speaks to them all that I command him.But when the One who comes alongside arrives, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Breath of truth, which goes out from the Father, he will bear witness of me.And these things we also speak, not in words that man's wisdom teaches, but in words the Set-Apart Breath teaches, fitting the things of the breath to the things of the breath.THE THREAD
All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes hold of what is mine and brings word back to you.The verb behind “receive” here returns as “take” in the next verse. The next line names the source: what belongs to the Father belongs to Jesus, and the Spirit declares what is shared.
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