What Does John 16:29 Mean in the King James?
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
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 speech has come out from behind the proverb, but hearing that it is plain does not yet prove its meaning has fully landed.
THE MEANING
You recognize when words stop reaching you through a figure and come into the open. Yet clear wording and full understanding are not the same thing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that recognizing a message as clear means you have already understood all it reveals.
THE ROOT
παρρησίᾳ
parrēsia
GROWS FROM
παρρησία
Open, unrestricted speech; frankness.
The word translated “plainly” carries the sense of speaking openly and without reserve. Set beside παροιμία, “proverb” or figurative saying, it marks a change from speech mediated by a figure to speech out in the open, though openness alone does not guarantee that its meaning has fully landed.
ALSO GROWS
parrēsia: Frankness or freedom of speech.
παρρησία
This is the dictionary form behind the verse’s “plainly,” naming speech that comes into the open.
parrēsiazomai: To speak openly or boldly.
παρρησιάζομαι
The related verb shows the same quality as an act: saying something without reserve.
THE PATTERN
Speech becomes public and direct when what was veiled or unspoken is voiced openly.
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:THE THREAD
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.The same word translated “plainly” here appears in Jesus’ promise to disclose the Father plainly, after speaking in proverbs. The disciples recognize that shift in this verse; the connection leaves open whether they yet grasp everything it reveals.
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