What Does John 14:20 Mean in the King James?

At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

John 14:20 · KJV

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 repeated “in” makes knowing a recognition of shared indwelling: your place in Jesus and his place in you belong to the same life.

THE MEANING

This verse speaks to you from within a shared life: Jesus is in the Father, you are in Jesus, and Jesus is in you. What you come to know is this relationship as lived reality, not merely a fact held at a distance.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that you can only meet Jesus from outside, as a distant observer, dissolves here: the verse places you in him and him in you.

THE ROOT

γνώσεσθε

gnōsesthe

GROWS FROM

⁨γνω-⁩/⁨γινωσκ-⁩ (gnō-/ginōsk-)

to know, come to know, or recognize

“know” in this verse is gnōsesthe. The word ⁨γινώσκω⁩ (ginōskō) carries knowing through encounter, not detached information. Its family includes knowledge and recognition, so the knowing to come is recognition of the relationship already described as mutual indwelling.

ALSO GROWS

gnōsis: knowledge, knowing

γνῶσις

This related noun shows the shared seed beneath the act of knowing and what is known.

epiginōskō: recognize, know fully

ἐπιγινώσκω

This compound highlights recognition, illuminating the verse’s movement from described relationship to known reality.

THE PATTERN

Divine life is known through nearness within, not distance outside.

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Deuteronomy 30:14 · KJVThe word is already near, within mouth and heart, rather than held at a distance.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 17:21 · KJVJesus describes oneness through the same pattern of being in one another.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

1 John 4:13 · KJVKnowing is tied directly to the mutual reality of dwelling in God and God in us.

THE THREAD

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:12 · KJV

The same Greek knowing root appears here: knowing unfolds from partial recognition toward knowing as one is known. John 14:20 names the relationship that makes that recognition possible, being in Jesus, with Jesus in you.

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