What Does Acts 14:25 Mean in the King James?

And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:

Acts 14:25 · 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

The good news is carried: it is spoken in Perga, then the movement continues toward Attalia.

THE MEANING

A spoken message reaches a real place and keeps moving beyond it. Perga receives the word, while the route carries it onward to Attalia; the message is present both in its announcement and in its movement.

THE ROOT

εὐαγγελισάμενοι

euangelisamenoi

GROWS FROM

ἀγγελ-

angel-

Announcement or message-bearing; with ⁨εὖ⁩ (eu, good), the word names announcing good news.

“Preached” carries the sense of announcing good news, a word-family connected with the messenger. The verse joins that announcement to actual movement between places: the message is carried, not held in the abstract.

ALSO GROWS

euangelion: good news; gospel

εὐαγγέλιον

This noun shares the announcement family and names the message being carried.

angelos: messenger

ἄγγελος

This branch reveals the message-bearing sense inside the act of proclaiming.

THE PATTERN

The announced word moves through places as people carry and voice it.

The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

Psalm 68:11 · KJVThe word is given and then carried outward by many voices.

And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

Mark 1:38 · KJVThe message moves toward the next towns through the act of going and preaching.

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

Acts 13:49 · KJVThe word continues beyond one place and spreads across a region.

THE THREAD

And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Acts 8:25 · KJV

Acts 14:25 and Acts 8:25 use the same Greek word, ⁨λόγος⁩ (logos), for “word.” Here the word moves from Perga toward Attalia; there, it is carried through many villages, making the movement within proclamation visible.

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