What Does John 11:27 Mean in the King James?
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
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
Martha’s “I believe” is whole-weight trust in Jesus as the Anointed One, not just agreement with a title.
THE MEANING
Your confession names Jesus as Lord, God’s Son, and the Anointed One who comes into the world. “I believe” carries the sense of trust that rests its weight on who he is. His coming reaches the world you inhabit now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that believing is only agreeing with a statement: here it names trust in the person Martha confesses.
THE ROOT
πιστεύω
pisteuō
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust and reliance.
English “believe” can sound like accepting a claim as true; the Greek verb carries trust in someone. Martha’s words place their weight on Jesus himself.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance.
πίστις
This related noun shows that her belief is an act of trust, not bare agreement.
pistos: Firm, steady; trustworthy.
πιστός
This related adjective brings steadiness into the same word family: trust rests on what is reliable.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρί-
chri-
To anoint.
“Christ” is a title meaning “Anointed One,” not a surname. Martha’s confession names Jesus by the nature and calling expressed in anointing.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
This verb names the action from which the title “Anointed One” grows.
chrisma: Anointing.
χρίσμα
This related noun keeps the title connected to the act of anointing.
κόσμον
kosmon
GROWS FROM
κοσμ-
kosm-
Ordered arrangement; adornment.
The word translated “world” also carries the sense of an ordered arrangement. The one Martha confesses comes into the inhabited order of life, not merely into an abstract place.
ALSO GROWS
kosmeō: To arrange, adorn.
κοσμέω
This verb shows the ordering sense carried within the word family.
kosmikos: Worldly; pertaining to the world.
κοσμικός
This adjective connects the word family to what belongs to the world’s order.
THE PATTERN
The Anointed One is named as belonging to God, and trust gives that recognition a voice.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.THE THREAD
But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.John 20:31 repeats Martha’s confession and ties believing that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, to life. Its Greek πιστεύω (pisteuō, trust) is the same verb behind “I believe,” showing her words as trust in a person, not assent to a bare title.
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