What Does John 15:27 Mean in the King James?
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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
Witness grows from a life of being with the one whose truth is spoken.
THE MEANING
You bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning; your testimony carries the grain of a relationship lived over time. Here, testimony is the speech of presence that has stayed close enough to recognize what it names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that witness belongs only to people with flawless arguments or official authority: the verse roots it in having been with the one you speak of.
THE ROOT
μαρτυρεῖτε
martureite
GROWS FROM
μαρτυρ-
martyr-
The Greek word family of witnessing and testimony.
The family behind “bear witness” includes both the act of testifying and the witness as a person; testimony is tied to someone who stands behind what is said. The verse roots the words you speak in the life you have shared with me.
ALSO GROWS
martys: A witness; one who testifies.
μάρτυς
The noun names the person behind the testimony, joining the speaker’s identity to what is spoken.
martyrion: Testimony or evidence.
μαρτύριον
The testimony itself belongs to the same Greek word family as the witness who bears it.
THE PATTERN
Witness grows from encounter and becomes testimony that can be shared.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;THE THREAD
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.“Witnesses” here is μάρτυρες (martyres, “witnesses”), from the same Greek word family as “bear witness” in John 15:27. One verse roots testimony in having been with me; the other carries that witness outward.
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