What Does Acts 2:32 Mean in the King James?
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
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 raising is carried into the present as a shared witness: “we all” see and testify to what God has done.
THE MEANING
God raises Jesus, whose name Yeshua carries the nature of deliverance from narrowness into spaciousness. The verse reaches you through a shared witness, keeping the raised Jesus present to many rather than sealed within one person’s claim.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the claim rests on one person’s private assertion: the verse names a whole company as witnesses.
THE ROOT
ἀνέστησεν
anestēsen
GROWS FROM
ἀνίστημι
anistēmi
To stand up, rise, or raise.
“raised” in this verse is anestēsen. The Greek verb carries the sense of standing up, not merely being moved from one place to another. Its family includes the word for resurrection, so the raising and the rising are held together in the language.
ALSO GROWS
anastasis: Rising, resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
This noun names the rising movement carried by the verb in the verse.
exanistēmi: Rise up, raise up.
ἐξανίστημι
This related verb keeps the same rising at its center, showing the root’s reach across forms.
μάρτυρες
martyres
GROWS FROM
μάρτυς
martys
A witness, one who bears testimony.
“witnesses” in this verse is martyres. This Greek word family includes the witness, the act of testifying, and the testimony itself. “We all” therefore describes more than people who saw: it names a shared bearing of the account.
ALSO GROWS
martyreō: Testify, bear witness.
μαρτυρέω
The related verb makes clear that witness includes the act of speaking what is seen or known.
martyria: Testimony, witness.
μαρτυρία
The testimony itself belongs to the same word family as the people called witnesses here.
THE PATTERN
What is encountered becomes public through witnesses who bear testimony.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.And ye are witnesses of these things.But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.THE THREAD
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.The same Greek rising verb appears in both verses: this verse names the witnesses, while Acts 2:24 names death’s inability to hold Jesus. Together, they hold the raising and its shared testimony in one movement.
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