What Does John 11:24 Mean in the King James?
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
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 Greek says “rise again” and “resurrection” with one root image: standing up.
THE MEANING
You can name a hope that reaches beyond present death: the dead rise again at a day still ahead. The words give this hope a concrete shape, standing up again.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι (histēmi), with ἀνά (ana-, up/again)
To stand or set; with ana-, to stand up again.
“resurrection / rise again” in this verse is anastasis. The noun ἀνάστασις (anastasis, resurrection) and the verb ἀναστήσεται (anastēsetai, he will rise again) share the image of standing up. The verse lets that image echo twice: resurrection is the dead standing again.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: To rise or stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This verb is the word-family behind “he shall rise again,” giving the future hope the image of a body standing up.
anastasis: A rising, standing up; resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
This noun names the same standing-up movement as the verb beside it, joining the event and the action in one root image.
THE PATTERN
The dead are pictured as waking or rising from the grave at a final turning point, with the outcome of that awakening exposed.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Martha locates resurrection at the last day; Jesus answers with the same Greek noun, anastasis, and says, “I am.” The future hope remains, while its source is named in the present.
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