What Does John 16:14 Mean in the King James?
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
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 Spirit gives weight to Jesus by receiving what is his and making it known to you.
THE MEANING
The Spirit makes Jesus’ weight known to you by taking what belongs to Jesus and declaring it to you. What is shared comes from Jesus and reaches you as something made known now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the Spirit’s message is detached from Jesus: the Spirit makes Jesus weighty by declaring what belongs to him.
THE ROOT
δοξάσει
doxasei
GROWS FROM
δοξ-/δοκ-
Honor, reputation, what is recognized or esteemed; the established rendering of doxa as “weight” gives this recognition a sense of substance.
The word translated “glorify” belongs to the family of doxa: honor, reputation, glory. The Spirit gives Jesus weight by making what is his known, so this glory is revealed through shared understanding.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Honor, reputation, glory; weight.
δόξα
This is the noun behind the verb “glorify,” showing that Jesus’ weight is what the Spirit makes known.
doxazō: To honor, glorify, give weight.
δοξάζω
The verb describes the Spirit’s action in the verse: Jesus is honored as what belongs to him is declared.
λήμψεται
lēmpsetai
GROWS FROM
λαβ-/λημψ-
To take or receive.
“receive” in this verse is lēmpsetai. The verb holds receiving and taking together. What the Spirit communicates is received from Jesus; it is not presented as an unrelated message.
ALSO GROWS
paralambanō: Receive, take along.
παραλαμβάνω
This related verb keeps the sense of taking something received onward, illuminating the movement from Jesus to the Spirit.
katalambanō: Grasp, take hold of.
καταλαμβάνω
This branch shows the family’s concrete sense of taking hold, beneath the English “receive.”
ἀναγγελεῖ
anangelei
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
To announce or report; to make known.
The word translated “shew” is a declaring verb, from the word family associated with a messenger. The Spirit’s action is to carry what belongs to Jesus into what you can know.
ALSO GROWS
angellō: Announce, report.
ἀγγέλλω
This related verb makes clear that “shew” here means declaring a message.
angelos: Messenger.
ἄγγελος
The messenger shares the same word family, revealing the movement of a message from its source to its hearer.
THE PATTERN
What is received from God becomes known through the one who speaks it.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.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:Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.THE THREAD
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.The verb behind “receive” here returns as “take” in the next verse. The next line names the source: what belongs to the Father belongs to Jesus, and the Spirit declares what is shared.
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