What Does Acts 15:27 Mean in the King James?
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
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 does not stop at being sent; it arrives in the voices of messengers who speak the same things.
THE MEANING
The message reaches you through named voices that make it audible and present. Their spoken report carries the same things entrusted to them, so what is sent also arrives in direct speech.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message automatically loses its trustworthiness when another person carries it.
THE ROOT
ἀπαγγέλλω
apangellō
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
Messenger; announcing or reporting a message.
The Greek word makes “tell” a messenger’s act: carrying a report onward. Here, the spoken words keep the message already sent present and recognizable.
ALSO GROWS
messenger: A messenger; one who carries a message.
ἄγγελος
The noun names the role behind the verb: Judas and Silas speak as messengers carrying an entrusted report.
proclaim: Announce, declare, or proclaim.
καταγγέλλω
The same ἀγγελ- family presents speech as a message being announced outward.
good news: Good news; gospel.
εὐαγγέλιον
This word also belongs to the announcement family, showing how the message is carried through speech.
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
GROWS FROM
στελλ-
stell-
Send or dispatch.
Sending and telling work together: people are dispatched to voice the message entrusted to them. The send-family also gives us the word for an apostle, a person who is sent.
ALSO GROWS
apostle: One sent; an envoy.
ἀπόστολος
The noun names a person by the sending that defines their role, like Judas and Silas here.
sending: A sending, commission, or mission.
ἀποστολή
This branch makes the act of dispatching visible as a defined task carried by a person.
THE PATTERN
A message entrusted to a messenger becomes present through the words that messenger speaks.
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.THE THREAD
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.“Hath sent me” uses ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, “send forth”), the same verb behind “we have sent” here. The verse traces how a message moves through successive messengers and reaches people in a living voice.
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