What Does 1 Peter 1:11 Mean in the King James?
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
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 testimony holds the Anointed One’s suffering and the weight that follows it together.
THE MEANING
The verse holds Christ’s suffering and the glory that follows as one testimony, present to you now. Your present suffering is real, but it does not define the whole horizon; what follows is also part of the pattern the verse reveals.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that suffering means the story has ended.
THE ROOT
παθήματα
pathēmata
GROWS FROM
παθ- / πάσχω (path- / paschō)
To undergo or experience; in painful contexts, to suffer.
“sufferings” in this verse is pathēmata. The word names what is actually undergone, not an idea about pain. Its word-family can also express suffering with another, so the verse names the Anointed One’s ordeal as part of the testimony that announces what follows.
ALSO GROWS
paschō: To undergo, experience, or suffer.
πάσχω
This verb shows the concrete experience beneath the noun for suffering.
sympaschō: To suffer with.
συμπάσχω
This compound carries the same suffering-root into shared experience, making the word’s relational reach visible.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To breathe or blow.
The word translated “Spirit” belongs to the same Greek breath-family as words for breathing and blowing. The testimony is described as present within the prophets, so the verse’s image is an inward, living breath bearing witness.
ALSO GROWS
pnoē: Breath or blowing.
πνοή
This related noun makes audible the breath-and-wind sense that English can hide inside “Spirit.”
pneumatikos: Breath-related; spiritual.
πνευματικός
This adjective keeps the same word-family visible in what is shaped by the breath.
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοκ- / δοκέω (dok- / dokeō)
To think, seem, or be regarded; the noun carries the sense of honor, reputation, and splendor, what is held in regard and therefore carries weight.
The word translated “glory” carries honor and splendor, the weight of what is worthy of regard. Here that weight follows the suffering and is still to be revealed.
ALSO GROWS
dokeō: To think, seem, or hold an opinion.
δοκέω
This verb shows the root’s link to how something is regarded.
doxazō: To honor, glorify, or make renowned.
δοξάζω
This related verb makes the honor in doxa active and visible.
THE PATTERN
Scripture holds suffering and what follows together, so present affliction is real without becoming the final horizon.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;THE THREAD
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.This verse repeats the same Greek word-family for Christ’s sufferings and pairs it again with his glory being revealed. It makes explicit the sequence already held within 1 Peter 1:11: suffering is named, and what follows is still coming into view.
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