What Does 1 John 4:14 Mean in the King James?
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Father’s sending and the Son’s deliverance are one movement: rescue is sent into the world.
THE MEANING
God’s deliverance is not an idea held at a distance: the Son is sent into the world, and the witnesses see and speak what that sending means. The scope named here is the world, so this rescue is not bounded by one private life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s deliverance is reserved only for a select few; the verse names the world as its reach.
THE ROOT
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), built from ἀπό (apo, away) + στέλλω (stellō, send or dispatch)
To send out or dispatch.
“sent” in this verse is apesteilen. The verb pictures a sending that carries something outward into the world. Here the Son is not merely a messenger with words about deliverance: the sending itself brings the deliverer into view.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: messenger, envoy
ἀπόστολος
The messenger is named by the sending that commissions and carries them outward.
apostolē: sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch makes the act of sending itself visible as a purpose carried into the world.
σωτῆρα
sōtēra
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To deliver, rescue, or bring safely through.
“Saviour” in this verse is sōtēra. The title names the Son by what he does: he is the deliverer. Paired with “sent,” it shows deliverance arriving in the world through a person, not remaining an abstract promise.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēr: deliverer, rescuer
σωτήρ
This is the title’s base form: the one who carries out the rescue.
sōtēria: deliverance, rescue
σωτηρία
The related noun names the deliverance embodied in the Son’s role.
THE PATTERN
God’s deliverance enters the world through the Son and is directed toward life for those within it.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.THE THREAD
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.The same Greek verb for sending links the Father’s act here with the Son’s mission in John 3:17, where that sending is paired with the Greek verb for deliver or rescue. The two verses reveal one movement: the one sent is the means through whom the world receives deliverance.
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