What Does John 20:9 Mean in the King James?
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
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 resurrection is already carried by Scripture before anyone can recognize what it says.
THE MEANING
You can stand beside an answer Scripture already carries and still not see it yet. Its truth does not depend on immediate recognition; understanding catches up to what the word has already named. The verse holds the necessity of rising from among the dead together with the delay in perceiving it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that what you cannot yet understand cannot already be true.
THE ROOT
ἀναστῆναι
anastēnai
GROWS FROM
ἵστημι (histēmi, stand or set), with ἀνά (aná, up or again)
The base verb means “stand” or “set in place”; with the prefix “up/again,” it forms the sense “stand up, rise.”
The verb’s image is to stand up. Its related noun names resurrection as a rising, so “rise again” carries a picture of standing up from among the dead.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: stand up, rise
ἀνίστημι
This is the verb family behind “rise again,” making standing up part of the word’s image.
anastasis: a rising, resurrection
ἀνάστασις
This related noun uses the same formation and names rising from death.
histēmi: stand, set, establish
ἵστημι
The base verb shows that the rising is pictured as coming to stand.
THE PATTERN
Scriptural witness can precede recognition, with the rising from death making its meaning visible.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:THE THREAD
Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.Acts 17:3 repeats δεῖ (dei, must or be necessary) and ἀνίστημι (anistēmi, stand up or rise), joining necessity directly to rising. John holds that same claim before recognition arrives, so the parallel makes the delay visible without loosening the certainty.
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