What Does John 14:27 Mean in the King James?
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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 peace Jesus leaves is wholeness from a different source, so the world’s way of giving does not define your heart.
THE MEANING
Wholeness is a gift that remains with you even while the world gives and takes on its own terms. Your heart’s agitation and fear are real, but they do not get to define what holds you together. This verse speaks into your unsettled place now with a peace that is already given.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that peace can exist only after everything around you becomes calm.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace, concord, and well-being: a condition of wholeness.
English “peace” can sound like a temporary feeling of calm. The repeated εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness) names a larger well-being that Jesus both leaves with you and gives to you; the world’s way of giving is not its measure.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To live at peace; to be at peace.
εἰρηνεύω
The word family describes peace as a way of being, not only a passing feeling.
eirēnikos: Peaceable; relating to peace.
εἰρηνικός
This branch carries the same wholeness into the character of what makes for peace.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness is received as God’s sustaining gift and can guard the heart even when outward conditions remain unsettled.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.THE THREAD
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.This verse repeats εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness) and places it beside tribulation. The shared word makes clear that the peace Jesus gives does not depend on the world becoming calm.
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