What Does John 12:31 Mean in the King James?
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
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 world and its ruler stand inside the same judgment: the order that governs this world is already being displaced.
THE MEANING
Judgment is present now, and the ruler of this world is being cast out. The power that appears to govern the world is itself within the reach of that judgment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the world’s ruling power is permanent or beyond judgment.
THE ROOT
κόσμου
kosmou
GROWS FROM
κόσμος
kosmos
World; also an ordered arrangement.
The same word can name the world and an arrangement or order. The verse places that world, together with its ruler, within the judgment now taking place.
ALSO GROWS
kosmeō: Arrange, adorn, put in order.
κοσμέω
This branch makes the sense of an ordered world audible beneath the English word “world.”
kosmios: Orderly, well-arranged.
κόσμιος
It shares the word’s connection to order, sharpening the contrast between a world’s apparent arrangement and its exposure to judgment.
κρίσις
krisis
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krinō
To distinguish, decide, or judge.
“Judgment” carries the sense of a decision that distinguishes and determines. The verse links that decision about the world with the ruler’s removal from it.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: Judge, decide, or distinguish.
κρίνω
This verb appears in John 16:11 for the prince of this world being judged.
krima: A judgment or verdict.
κρίμα
This related word shows the root’s movement from judging to the verdict that follows.
ἐκβληθήσεται
ekblēthēsetai
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
To throw or cast; ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) means to cast out.
“cast out” in this verse is ekblēthēsetai. The verb pictures the ruler being thrown out from a place or domain. Its passive form leaves the actor unstated, while the verse makes the result clear: the ruler is displaced.
ALSO GROWS
ballō: Throw or cast.
βάλλω
This is the basic verb beneath the verse’s image of being cast out.
kataballō: Throw down or cast down.
καταβάλλω
This related compound carries the same casting action toward a lower position, echoing the loss of standing implied here.
THE PATTERN
When a world’s ruling powers come under judgment, their claim to govern is exposed and overturned.
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.THE THREAD
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.John 12:31 uses κρίσις (krisis, judgment), while John 16:11 uses the related verb κρίνω (krinō, judge) for the prince of this world. The shared root makes explicit that the ruler’s expulsion is the world’s judgment reaching its ruler.
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