What Does John 3:35 Mean in the King James?
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
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
Everything in the Son’s hand begins as something given in love.
THE MEANING
The Father’s love is visible now as complete entrustment: all things are placed into the Son’s hand. The authority he holds is received and enduring; the reader encounters divine rule through a relationship marked by love and trust.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that true authority must be seized or self-created: here, everything in the Son’s hand is entrusted by the Father’s love.
THE ROOT
δεδώκεν
dedōken
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give or grant; to place something into another’s care or possession.
The verse presents the Son’s authority as something received, not self-claimed. The perfect form δεδώκεν (dedōken, “has given”) also presents that gift as enduring: all things remain entrusted to his hand.
ALSO GROWS
dosis: giving; a gift
δόσις
This related word keeps the act of giving visible inside the idea of a gift: what rests in the Son’s hand comes to him through the Father’s giving.
doma: a gift
δόμα
This word for a gift carries the same movement from giver to receiver, illuminating the Son’s authority as entrusted rather than grasped.
THE PATTERN
The Father entrusts authority to the Son, who turns that trust toward service and life.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.THE THREAD
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;John 13:3 repeats the giving and hand language, then shows Jesus rise and wash his disciples’ feet. The authority placed in his hands takes the form of service.
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