What Does Acts 10:36 Mean in the King James?
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
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
God sends wholeness through Jesus, and names the one through whom it comes Lord of all.
THE MEANING
God’s word reaches you now as an announcement of wholeness through Jesus, whom the verse names Lord of all. The verse names the children of Israel and, in the same sentence, calls Jesus Lord of all; its claim reaches you, too.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that God’s message belongs only to Israel: the same verse declares Jesus Lord of all.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Wholeness, concord, peace
Here peace names what the sent word announces: wholeness. Its word-family reaches into making peace and peaceable life, giving that wholeness a relational shape.
ALSO GROWS
eirēnopoieō: Make peace
εἰρηνοποιέω
The announcement of wholeness is linked to making peace, so it includes the mending of relationships.
eirēnikos: Peaceable, marked by peace
εἰρηνικός
This branch shows wholeness as a quality that can mark a person or way of life.
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), from στέλλω (stellō)
Send forth, dispatch
God’s word is portrayed as dispatched, with direction and reach. The same word-family names both the one sent and the act of sending, joining the message, its bearer, and its movement.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: Messenger, one sent
ἀπόστολος
The message’s movement can also be carried by a person sent to bear it.
apostolē: Sending, commission
ἀποστολή
This branch names the act of sending that gives the word its outward direction.
εὐαγγελιζόμενος
euangelizomenos
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel-
Good news; announcing good news
The verb translated “preaching” means announcing good news; here the news is wholeness through Jesus. The sent word arrives as a specific announcement, rather than as an abstract idea.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: Good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This noun names the announcement carried by the preaching in the verse.
euangelistēs: Announcer of good news
εὐαγγελιστής
This branch names the person who carries that announcement.
THE PATTERN
God’s announcement of wholeness moves outward, gathering those near and far under one lordship.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.THE THREAD
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.Both verses use λόγος (logos, word). Acts shows the word sent and announced through Jesus; John says the Word becomes flesh and dwells among us, so the message of wholeness is encountered in a person.
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