What Does John 15:26 Mean in the King James?
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
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 Comforter consoles by urging truth into the open as a witness to Jesus.
THE MEANING
The Comforter comes to you from the Father, and the Breath of truth bears witness to Jesus. This comfort consoles while urging truth into recognition; it is testimony about a living person, not an abstract idea.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that comfort is only soothing and has no part in telling the truth.
THE ROOT
παράκλητος
paraklētos
GROWS FROM
παρακαλε-
parakale-
To comfort or console, with a related sense of urging or appeal.
The English title can make the Comforter sound like a role defined only by consolation; the related verb also carries urging and appeal. The verse shows that active comfort as testimony, so consolation and truth arrive together.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: To comfort, console, or urge.
παρακαλέω
The verb holds consolation and appeal in one word family, illuminating a comfort that speaks and bears witness.
paraklēsis: Comfort, consolation, or appeal.
παράκλησις
This branch keeps comfort connected to an appeal that can make truth heard.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
pneu-
To breathe or blow.
The KJV’s “Spirit” stands over a Greek word that also means breath; the verse names the witness as the Breath of truth. One word holds together what English can separate into an unseen presence and bodily breathing.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb reveals the breath within the word translated “Spirit.”
pnoē: Breath or blowing.
πνοή
This related word makes the breath connection explicit, joining the verse’s witness to something living and embodied.
μαρτυρήσει
martyresei
GROWS FROM
μαρτυρ-
martyr-
To witness or attest.
“testify” in this verse is martyresei. The witness-root binds the person who sees to the testimony that is borne. The Comforter’s work is therefore not a vague impression: it is a witness that points to Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
martys: A witness.
μάρτυς
The same root names the one who bears witness, not just the act of speaking.
martyria: Testimony or witness.
μαρτυρία
This branch names the testimony itself, showing how the witness becomes evidence about Jesus.
THE PATTERN
Truth becomes knowable through witness that makes the unseen source recognizable.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.THE THREAD
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:Romans uses the same witness-root and repeats the word translated “Spirit” for the human spirit beside it. John names the testimony as being about Jesus; Romans shows this witnessing breath alongside the reader’s own spirit.
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