What Does Acts 27:11 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
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 warning can be heard and still lose when visible expertise feels more persuasive than the truth it carries.
THE MEANING
You can give greater weight to advice backed by visible authority than to a warning whose truth is not yet apparent. The verse exposes how choosing whom to trust also determines which voice gets to steer what happens next.
THE ROOT
ἐπείθετο
epeitheto
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
To persuade, win over, or bring into trust; in the middle or passive form, to be persuaded, heed, or obey.
“believed” in this verse is epeitheto. The Greek form can describe persuasion that turns into practical heed, not only private assent. The same root can mean being convinced or obeying, so the verse makes belief visible in whose judgment directs the next step.
ALSO GROWS
epeithonto: They were persuaded by him; the KJV renders this form “obeyed” in Acts 5:36.
ἐπείθοντο
The form shows how persuasion can become action: the voice that wins belief also directs behavior.
pepeismai: A settled conviction, as in Romans 8:38.
πέπεισμαι
The same root can describe conviction that holds firm, revealing how much depends on which voice a person trusts.
THE PATTERN
When voices compete, trust reveals which source is allowed to direct action.
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.THE THREAD
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,“I am persuaded” (πέπεισμαι, pepeismai) shares the root πείθω with the centurion’s “believed” (ἐπείθετο, epeitheto). The same root can name a conviction that holds firm, bringing the weight of the centurion’s choice into view.
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