What Does John 14:19 Mean in the King James?
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
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
His life is the hinge between your seeing him and your living also.
THE MEANING
The world’s seeing of Jesus ends, while your beholding of him remains. His life is the ground of the life promised to you, joining your seeing of him with the promise that you will live also.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that losing visible access means the living one is absent or that your life is separate from his.
THE ROOT
ζῶ
zō
GROWS FROM
ζα-/ζω- (za-/zō-), the Greek verb stem
To live, to be alive.
The verb for “I live” and the verb for “you shall live” belong to the same word family. That shared seed makes the promise intimate: the life present in him is the life promised to you.
ALSO GROWS
zōē: Life.
ζωή
The noun names the life carried by the same word family as the verse’s “I live” and “ye shall live.”
zōopoieō: Make alive, give life.
ζωοποιέω
This compound shows the family extending from being alive to giving life, echoing the verse’s movement from his life to yours.
θεωρεῖ
theōrei
GROWS FROM
θεωρ-
theōr-
To behold, observe, or look upon.
The verb translated “see” carries the sense of beholding or observing. The verse sets the world’s ending sight beside your continuing beholding, while tying your life to the one who lives.
ALSO GROWS
theōria: Viewing, observation, contemplation.
θεωρία
This noun keeps the sense of sustained beholding present in the verse’s contrast between the world and you.
theōrētēs: Observer, beholder.
θεωρητής
This related word names the one who beholds, bringing out the verse’s distinction between those who no longer see and those who do.
THE PATTERN
Life is received from God and shared with those joined to him.
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: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:The verb translated “live” in both verses belongs to the same Greek word family, ζάω (zaō), meaning to live. John 11:25 places the promise of life in the face of death, opening “ye shall live also” beyond what the world can see.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us