What Does Acts 8:25 Mean in the King James?
And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
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
Returning to the familiar does not stop the witness: the good news keeps moving into Samaritan villages.
THE MEANING
The testimony you carry about the Lord becomes spoken word and travels through familiar places and beyond them. In you, a return to familiar ground remains part of a movement that carries good news across boundaries.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that returning to what is familiar means the message has stopped is undone here: the return to Jerusalem accompanies good news reaching Samaritan villages.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελίζομαι
euangelizomai
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel-
Good-news announcement: the word family names both the message and the act of announcing it.
The Greek verb translated “preached the gospel” belongs to the same word family as “good news.” The message and its movement outward are held together in one family of words.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: Good news; the message announced.
εὐαγγέλιον
The message proclaimed in the villages is named by the same word family.
euangelistēs: An announcer of good news; an evangelist.
εὐαγγελιστής
This branch names the person who carries the announcement.
διαμαρτύρομαι
diamartyromai
GROWS FROM
μαρτυρ-
martyr-
Witness and testimony: attesting to what is seen or known.
“testified” in this verse is diamartyromai. The Greek word family joins the act of testifying with the witness who bears testimony. Beside the good-news verb, it shows proclamation growing from witness.
ALSO GROWS
martyria: Testimony; a witness account.
μαρτυρία
It names the testimony that precedes the announcement in this verse.
martys: A witness; one who bears testimony.
μάρτυς
It names the witness whose testimony can become public proclamation.
THE PATTERN
Witness becomes announcement, and the announcement crosses from familiar places into wider communities.
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.How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.THE THREAD
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!The Greek scriptures use the same good-news word family here as Acts uses for “preached the gospel.” The Samaritan-village announcement is part of that same movement: good news travels across distance and reaches its hearers.
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