What Does Acts 3:24 Mean in the King James?
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
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 prophets’ words do more than predict a future: they give the present a recognizable shape when what was announced arrives.
THE MEANING
The prophetic witness speaks into these days, placing the present within a story already announced. What was spoken beforehand becomes recognizable as it unfolds now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The days you are living are disconnected from what has already been spoken.
THE ROOT
προκαταγγέλλω
prokatangellō
GROWS FROM
ἀγγέλλω (aggellō) — announce, report; προ- adds “beforehand”
To announce or report; with προ-, to announce beforehand.
The word translated “foretold” is built around the act of announcing, with a prefix that places the message ahead of its fulfillment. The Greek pictures a message spoken beforehand and recognized as it arrives in the present.
ALSO GROWS
katangellō: proclaim, announce
καταγγέλλω
It shares the announcing root, showing prophecy as a spoken message rather than only a prediction.
apangellō: report, announce
ἀπαγγέλλω
It carries the same message-bearing root, linking what is foretold with what is later reported as present.
THE PATTERN
Prophetic speech names God’s work before its appearance, so the present can be recognized when it arrives.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.THE THREAD
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.This nearby verse uses the same Greek verb for what God “before had shewed” that Acts 3:24 uses for what the prophets “foretold.” Together, they connect the announcement spoken beforehand with what is now recognized as fulfilled.
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