What Does John 4:29 Mean in the King James?
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
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 reveals her past also turns the crowd toward recognizing who stands before them.
THE MEANING
You can be fully known without being reduced to what you have done; the truth of your life can become a doorway to recognition. Her question sends others to look for themselves, with the answer still open before them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that being fully known can only expose and disqualify you gives way: here, what is known points toward recognition.
THE ROOT
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
To anoint; to apply oil, marking or setting someone apart.
Christ names the anointed one, so the woman’s question is about more than a title: she is asking whether the man who knows her is the one marked out for this role. The word carries the act of anointing inside the title.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
The verb names the act contained in “the anointed one.”
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
This related noun makes the shared root visible: the title and the act of anointing grow from the same word family.
THE PATTERN
A personal encounter becomes testimony that invites others to see for themselves.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.THE THREAD
And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.The next verse completes the invitation: her testimony brings them near, and hearing Jesus themselves carries recognition further. What begins with one woman’s encounter widens into shared recognition.
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