What Does John 5:15 Mean in the King James?
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
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 man’s wholeness becomes a message: the one restored now announces the one who restored him.
THE MEANING
The man’s wholeness becomes speech, and your own restoration can become clear recognition of its source. Jesus’ name carries the nature of deliverance, from constriction toward spaciousness. The verse holds receiving and naming together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that wholeness is only a private change in the body: here, the man’s restored condition also becomes public recognition of its source.
THE ROOT
ἀνήγγειλεν
anēngeilen
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
Message, announcement; making something known.
“told” in this verse is anēngeilen. The man’s ἀνήγγειλεν (anēngeilen, reported) belongs to the message-bearing family of ἄγγελος (angelos, messenger). His message names Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous, Jesus), the Greek form of יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua, deliverance): the restored man announces the one whose name carries deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
angelos: Messenger, one who bears a message.
ἄγγελος
The same root family links the man’s report with the role of carrying news.
angelia: Message, announcement.
ἀγγελία
This branch makes clear that his telling carries a message: who made him whole.
ὑγιῆ
hygiē
GROWS FROM
ὑγι-
Healthy, sound, in good condition.
“whole” in this verse is hygiē. The Greek term describes sound health, a restored condition. Its family names both health as a state and being healthy, placing wholeness within a living continuum.
ALSO GROWS
hygiainō: To be healthy, sound.
ὑγιαίνω
This verb carries the same soundness into the ongoing condition of being well.
hygeia: Health, soundness.
ὑγίεια
This noun names the state expressed by the man being called whole.
ποιήσας
poiēsas
GROWS FROM
ποιε-
Do, make, bring about.
“made” in this verse is poiēsas. Here ποιήσας names Jesus as the one who brought about the man’s condition, while ὑγιῆ names the soundness received. The phrasing holds the act and the restored condition together.
ALSO GROWS
poiētēs: Maker, doer.
ποιητής
This branch names the one who acts, echoing the verse’s identification of Jesus as the one who made the man whole.
poiēma: Thing made, work.
ποίημα
This branch points to what an act brings about, illuminating the man’s restored condition.
THE PATTERN
An encounter with restoration becomes a witness that names what has been done.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.THE THREAD
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.John uses the same ἀγγελ- message family when Mary tells the disciples she has seen the Lord. In both scenes, an encounter becomes an announcement that identifies Jesus; what is received travels outward as testimony.
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