What Does John 14:11 Mean in the King James?
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
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 same call to trust rests first on the unseen bond Jesus names, then on the visible works that bear witness to it.
THE MEANING
You are met with a reality that cannot be seen directly: the Son is in the Father, and the Father is in the Son. Trust can rest in that word; when it is hard to perceive, the works offer something visible for trust to lean on. The verse holds inward unity and outward evidence together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that trust must be blind or unsupported: here, the works offer visible ground for receiving what cannot be seen directly.
THE ROOT
πιστεύετε
pisteuete
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, reliability, or confidence to rely upon.
The verb for “believe” is repeated: trust the word about the Father and the Son, or trust on the basis of the works. Its family carries both the act of trusting and the quality of being trustworthy, so trust here has something to lean on.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, confidence
πίστις
This noun names the reliance that the repeated verb calls for.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable, firm
πιστός
This branch describes what can bear trust; the works function as visible witness to the claim.
THE PATTERN
Visible works can give trust a foothold in a reality the eye cannot directly see.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in 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 uses the same Greek verb, πιστεύω (pisteuō: trust), for the response the signs are meant to awaken. That trust opens into life through his name, his nature, so the works disclose who is present.
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