What Does Acts 22:15 Mean in the King James?
For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
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
A witness is not built from theory; it carries outward what has already been seen and heard.
THE MEANING
What you have truly seen and heard becomes testimony through you. That witness reaches beyond private experience, extending to all people. The verse holds receiving and bearing witness together.
THE ROOT
μάρτυς
martys
GROWS FROM
μαρτυρ-
martyr-
The Greek word family for witness and testimony: bearing evidence to what is known.
This word family connects the witness, the act of testifying, and the testimony itself. The verse grounds that witness in what has been seen and heard, then carries it outward to all people.
ALSO GROWS
martyreō: to testify, bear witness
μαρτυρέω
Shows witness as an act: what is received is spoken or demonstrated.
martyria: testimony, witness
μαρτυρία
Names the evidence that takes shape from the witness’s testimony.
THE PATTERN
What is received through seeing and hearing becomes testimony that can be carried outward.
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.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.That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
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.Acts 1:8 uses the same Greek witness word family, joining the witness’s identity with the reach of the testimony. Acts 22:15 names what grounds that witness: what has been seen and heard.
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