What Does John 11:46 Mean in the King James?
But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
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
What is done does not stay in the moment: witnesses carry it onward, making a deed into evidence before power.
THE MEANING
Some who see what Jesus does carry the account to the Pharisees; the deed moves from sight into speech and reaches those with authority. The verse speaks now wherever a witnessed act is carried to people who can shape its meaning.
THE ROOT
ἐποίησεν
epoiēsen
GROWS FROM
ποι
ποι (poi) means “make, do, bring about”; ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen) means “he did” or “he made.”
The English “done” can make the act sound closed and past, while the Greek verb holds doing and making together. The verse places the deed beside its circulation: what Jesus brings about becomes something witnesses carry onward.
ALSO GROWS
poiéō: to do, make
ποιέω
This is the verb’s dictionary form, holding together the doing and making conveyed by “had done.”
poiēma: a thing made, a work
ποίημα
It shows the same root naming the result of an act, as the witnesses report what Jesus has brought about.
poiētēs: a maker, doer
ποιητής
This branch names one who acts, drawing attention to the deed and the one whose work is being reported.
THE PATTERN
A witnessed act becomes testimony when people carry it into speech.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.THE THREAD
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.The same Greek verb appears in both verses: ποιέω (poiéō), “do” or “make.” John 5:19 places Jesus’ doing in relation to what he sees the Father do; John 11:46 shows that this doing becomes visible and is carried forward by witnesses.
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