What Does John 16:15 Mean in the King James?
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take 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
What the Spirit makes known is received from what the Father and Son already share.
THE MEANING
What belongs to the Father is already the Son’s; the Spirit receives from that shared fullness and makes it known to you. Revelation reaches you as communication of what is already held in common.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the Father’s fullness is separate from the Son’s, or that what is shown to you must come from a source outside what they share.
THE ROOT
λαμβάνει
lambánei
GROWS FROM
λαμβ-
lamb-
To take or receive.
“take” in this verse is lambánei. This verb carries both taking and receiving: what is taken here is received from what is already the Son’s. The verse presents disclosure as the passing on of what is already held, rather than something appearing from nowhere.
ALSO GROWS
paralambánō: To receive or take along.
παραλαμβάνω
The shared verb stem keeps the sense of receiving something that is passed on.
katalambánō: To take hold of, overtake, or grasp.
καταλαμβάνω
Its compound extends the same taking-root toward grasping what has been received.
ἀναγγελεῖ
anangeleî
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
angel-
To announce or report.
“shew” in this verse is anangeleî. This word can mean announcing or reporting, so the movement is communicative: what is received becomes known to you. The verse describes the Spirit carrying forward what is shared, rather than presenting an unrelated message.
ALSO GROWS
angelía: An announcement or report.
ἀγγελία
The message is what the act of announcing carries to its hearers.
ángelos: A messenger who carries or announces a message.
ἄγγελος
The messenger shares the same announcement-word family, illuminating the Spirit’s role in making what is received known.
THE PATTERN
What is held in God is received and made known, bringing what is given into human understanding.
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.THE THREAD
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.The same receive-and-announce movement appears here: the Spirit receives what is Jesus’s and makes it known to you. The next verse reveals why this is also the Father’s: everything the Father has belongs to the Son.
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