What Does John 10:36 Mean in the King James?
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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 one accused of blasphemy is the one the Father has set apart and sent, placing his claim within the Father’s own commission.
THE MEANING
This verse places “I am the Son of God” beside what the Father does: he sets Jesus apart and sends him into the world. The charge arises because Jesus speaks this claim, while the verse grounds his words in his relationship with the Father and the Father’s sending.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being accused of blasphemy does not, by itself, prove that a claim is false; here, the verse answers the charge by naming the Father’s setting apart and sending.
THE ROOT
ἀπέστειλεν
apesteilen
GROWS FROM
ἀποστέλλω
apostellō
to send forth or dispatch
The verse names the Father as the one who sends Jesus into the world. The related noun ἀπόστολος (apostolos), “envoy” or “one sent,” shows how sending can define the role of the person who carries the message.
ALSO GROWS
apostolos: envoy; one who is sent
ἀπόστολος
The envoy’s identity is bound to the sending that the verse attributes to the Father.
apostolē: a sending; a commission
ἀποστολή
This branch brings out the commissioning carried by the Father’s act of sending.
ἡγίασεν
hēgiasen
GROWS FROM
ἁγιάζω
hagiazō
to set apart or consecrate
“sanctified” in this verse is hēgiasen. The root brings the sense of being set apart into view. The verse pairs that act with sending and names the Father as the one responsible for both.
ALSO GROWS
hagios: set apart; holy
ἅγιος
This related word shows the quality expressed by the Father’s act of setting Jesus apart.
hagiasmos: setting apart; consecration
ἁγιασμός
This noun names the act or state that stands beside the sending in the verse.
THE PATTERN
The one sent by God carries a commission into the world that names who sent him.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.THE THREAD
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.John 17:18 repeats the same sending verb and the phrase “into the world,” then extends the pattern from the one sent by the Father to those he sends. This opens John 10:36’s pairing of setting apart and sending as part of a continuing commission.
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