What Does John 1:35 Mean in the King James?
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
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 disciple here is a learner beside a witness, whose learning remains open to what the witness will reveal.
THE MEANING
Learning begins in the presence of someone whose witness has earned attention. The learner’s place is real, but it stays open to what that witness points toward.
THE ROOT
μαθητῶν
mathētōn
GROWS FROM
μανθ-
manth-
Learn; acquire knowledge through learning.
The word rendered “disciples” names learners: the two gathered around John are still in the process of learning. That root makes their identity active and open, rather than a finished religious rank.
ALSO GROWS
manthanō: learn
μανθάνω
This verb is the source of μαθητής: the disciple is named by the act of learning.
mathēteuō: become or make a disciple
μαθητεύω
The related verb keeps the same movement of learning alive as a way of becoming.
mathēma: lesson, that which is learned
μάθημα
This branch names what learners receive, placing John’s gathered disciples within an ongoing process of learning.
THE PATTERN
A witness stands with learners until their attention can move beyond him.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!THE THREAD
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.The word translated “disciples” shares its learning-root with Jesus’ “learn of me.” The shared root opens discipleship as an ongoing movement of learning, now directed toward Jesus.
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