What Does John 16:27 Mean in the King James?
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
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 same Greek verb names the Father’s affection for you and your love for Jesus, placing you inside their shared bond.
THE MEANING
The Father’s affection reaches you in relation to your love for Jesus and your trust that he comes from God. Your love and trust are named as an active bond joining you, Jesus, and the Father.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the Father’s love is distant or impersonal: the verse addresses you as its direct object.
THE ROOT
φιλεῖ
philei
GROWS FROM
φιλέω
phil-
To love with personal affection; to cherish.
“loveth / have loved” in this verse is philei. The Father’s “loveth” and your “have loved” are forms of the same Greek verb, an echo English makes easy to miss. The repeated word places your affection for Jesus within the Father’s own language of love.
ALSO GROWS
philos: Friend; one held in affection.
φίλος
This related word shows the personal, relational quality carried by the love in the verse.
philēma: Kiss; an expression of affection.
φίλημα
The word family can name affection made visible in a gesture, giving this love a tangible, relational sense.
πεπιστεύκατε
pepisteukate from pisteuō
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust and reliability; the ground for placing confidence.
The word translated “believed” carries the sense of trust: leaning your full weight on the claim that Jesus comes from God. Its perfect form presents that trust as established and still present.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust; reliance.
πίστις
This noun names the reliance expressed by your belief that Jesus comes from God.
pistos: Trustworthy; firm, steady.
πιστός
The related word for what can be trusted shows the quality of the ground on which this belief rests.
THE PATTERN
The Father’s love and human love for God are expressed as a responsive bond.
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.We love him, because he first loved us.THE THREAD
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.“Loveth” is the same Greek verb, φιλέω (phileō), used for the Father’s love in John 16:27. There the Father’s affection for the Son extends to those who love the Son, drawing you into that shared bond.
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