What Does Acts 26:27 Mean in the King James?
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
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 repeated word for trust turns belief from a bare opinion into something you lean your weight on.
THE MEANING
The question reaches the reader now: do you trust the prophets? Trust means more than agreeing that their words are true; it is leaning your full weight on their witness. The verse places that trust in the open by asking about it directly and naming it as known.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It unsettles the idea that trust in the prophets can remain a label untouched by what their testimony says.
THE ROOT
πιστεύεις
pisteueis
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, reliance; placing confidence in someone or something.
“believest” in this verse is pisteueis. The same verb appears in both the question and the answer: trust is asked about, then recognized. Its word family connects reliance with firmness, showing that belief here is more than holding an opinion, it is leaning on a witness.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance
πίστις
This noun names the trust the verse asks about: a person’s reliance on the prophets’ testimony.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy
πιστός
This branch links trust with steadiness, revealing belief as a relationship with a witness one relies on.
THE PATTERN
Trust in a witness becomes visible in how a person receives that witness’s words.
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?THE THREAD
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.The same verb, πιστεύω (pisteuō; trust, rely), appears twice in the connected verse. It shows how trust in a prophet reaches into the testimony that prophet gives.
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