What Does John 4:43 Mean in the King James?
Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
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
“Departed” and “went” are two compounds of one Greek verb: leaving and moving onward are one continuous motion.
THE MEANING
A pause can be real without being permanent: after two days, Jesus leaves one place and enters Galilee. In your own movement, staying for a time and moving onward can belong to the same journey.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A stay only matters if it lasts. This verse lets a brief stay have its own boundary without making it meaningless.
THE ROOT
ἐξῆλθεν
exēlthen
GROWS FROM
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
To come or go; to arrive or move. The compounds add direction: out from, or away toward.
“departed / went” in this verse is exēlthen. English gives us “departed” and “went” as separate actions. Greek repeats the same movement seed: first out from the place where Jesus has stayed, then onward into Galilee. The two days mark the pause; the shared root carries the motion through it.
ALSO GROWS
exerchomai: To come or go out from a place.
ἐξέρχομαι
This compound appears as “departed,” marking the movement away from where Jesus has stayed.
aperchomai: To go away from a place, often toward another destination.
ἀπέρχομαι
This compound appears as “went”; paired with “into Galilee,” it carries the movement toward the next place.
THE PATTERN
A departure can be one step in a continuing journey: leaving one place makes the next place part of the same movement.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.THE THREAD
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.“Were come” in this verse and “departed / went” in John 4:43 share the Greek movement verb ἔρχομαι (erchomai), meaning to come or go. The Samaritans ask Jesus to stay; he stays two days, then that bounded stay leads into onward movement.
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