What Does John 1:3 Mean in the King James?
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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
Nothing that exists lies outside the source through whom all things come to be.
THE MEANING
All things come to be through him, and your own life belongs within that all. Your existence is not self-originating; it comes through the one this verse names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that you are self-originating, or that any part of existence stands wholly independent of him.
THE ROOT
ἐγένετο
egeneto
GROWS FROM
γεν-/γιν- (gen-/gin-)
Come to be, become, be born.
The Greek form means “came to be,” presenting creation as the coming-into-being of all things through him. The same word family names origin and birth, revealing a shared language of emergence beneath “were made.”
ALSO GROWS
ginomai: Become; come to be.
γίνομαι
This is the verb’s lexical form: the verse describes all things entering existence through him.
genesis: Origin; birth.
γένεσις
This noun from the same word family names an origin or birth, linking creation’s coming-to-be with the beginning of life.
THE PATTERN
What exists comes into being through God’s speaking agency, with nothing outside that relation.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:THE THREAD
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.John names the “him” of this verse as the Word, who is with God and is God. The one through whom all things come to be is the divine Word at the beginning.
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