What Does Acts 9:28 Mean in the King James?

And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

Acts 9:28 · KJV

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 verse measures belonging not by a single welcome, but by being with them through every entrance and exit.

THE MEANING

Belonging is shared movement: he is with them as they come and go in Jerusalem. Their companionship holds through the ordinary rhythm of arrival and departure, not only at one moment of welcome.

THE ROOT

εἰσπορευόμενος

eisporeuomenos

GROWS FROM

πορεύομαι

To go, proceed, or travel.

“coming in and going out” in this verse is eisporeuomenos. Both forms grow from ⁨πορεύομαι⁩ (poreuomai, “to go”): ⁨εἰσπορευόμενος⁩ (eisporeuomenos) is going in, and ⁨ἐκπορευόμενος⁩ (ekporeuomenos) is going out. The paired directions make belonging visible across the full rhythm of movement, rather than at only one threshold.

ALSO GROWS

poreuomai: To go, proceed, or travel.

πορεύομαι

The shared base carries the sense of ongoing movement through both directions in the verse.

eisporeuomai: To enter or go in.

εἰσπορεύομαι

This branch gives the inward movement that places him among them.

ekporeuomai: To go out or depart.

ἐκπορεύομαι

This branch completes the pair: his shared life with them includes leaving as well as entering.

THE PATTERN

Going in and coming out names the whole field of a person’s lived participation.

And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 31:2 · KJVThe paired movements describe Moses’ ability to take part in the work of life.

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalm 121:8 · KJVThe same pair gathers everyday movement into the full span of a person’s life.

Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 1:21 · KJVCompanionship is measured across the ordinary comings and goings of shared life.

THE THREAD

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalm 121:8 · KJV

The same paired movements name the full span of everyday life. Acts shows him sharing that movement with the disciples; the Psalm places a person’s going out and coming in within the LORD’s keeping.

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