What Does Acts 10:27 Mean in the King James?

And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.

Acts 10:27 · KJV

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

Peter’s entrance and the crowd’s assembly are both forms of the Greek verb “to come”: one moves inward, the other toward one another.

THE MEANING

The encounter meets you where arrival and gathering overlap. You may be entering a conversation already held within a larger circle of people. The personal exchange and the many-person assembly occupy the same moment.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A conversation is not always only between two people; the person you meet may already be surrounded by a gathered community.

THE ROOT

συνεληλυθότας

synelēlythotas

GROWS FROM

ἔρχομαι

erchomai

to come, go, or arrive

“gathered” in this verse is synelēlythotas. The KJV gives went in and come together different verbal shapes, but both carry ⁨ἔρχομαι⁩, to come. Their prefixes turn that shared motion inward or toward others, making Peter’s entrance and the crowd’s assembly two directions of the same movement.

ALSO GROWS

eiserchomai: to enter, come in

εἰσέρχομαι

This is the verb behind went in in the same verse; its shared root with the crowd’s assembly links Peter’s arrival to their coming together.

synerchomai: to come together, assemble

συνέρχομαι

This is the verb behind were come together; its ⁨συν-⁩ prefix marks movement into company.

THE PATTERN

A gathering creates shared space where encounter becomes possible.

A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1 · KJVTogetherness is presented as shared life, not merely people occupying the same place.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Acts 2:1 · KJVMany people share one place, held together in one accord.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 18:20 · KJVThe gathering becomes a shared space for presence among those gathered in the speaker’s nature.

THE THREAD

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

1 Corinthians 11:18 · KJV

Come together uses the same verb family, ⁨συνέρχομαι⁩, as the gathered group in Acts. The shared root names the assembly itself, whether its members are many in one house or divided among themselves, so gathering does not guarantee harmony.

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