What Does Acts 14:21 Mean in the King James?
And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
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 message becomes a people of learners: the Greek verb behind “taught many” carries the force of making disciples.
THE MEANING
The good news reaches a place and forms many into learners. Its movement includes returning through familiar communities, holding outward reach and renewed presence together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that meaningful growth counts only when it moves toward somewhere new dissolves here: return is part of the movement.
THE ROOT
μαθητεύσαντες
mathēteúsantes
GROWS FROM
μαθ- (math-), with the related form μανθ- (manth-)
Learn; the word family names both the learner and the making of learners.
“taught many” in this verse is mathēteúsantes. The verb here means “having made learners” or “having discipled many.” Its family connects that action to the learner and to learning itself: many people are drawn into an ongoing relationship with what they hear, not only a moment of instruction.
ALSO GROWS
mathētēs: Learner; disciple.
μαθητής
This is the person named by the verb’s action: the many are formed as learners, not merely addressed as listeners.
manthanō: Learn.
μανθάνω
The related verb names the continuing activity of a learner, showing the teaching as the beginning of a learning path.
THE PATTERN
Good news takes root as people learn, carry the teaching into daily life, and pass it onward.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.THE THREAD
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:Matthew’s “teach” is the same Greek verb family rendered “had taught many” here. Acts shows that movement taking shape: the good news reaches a city and many become learners.
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