What Does John 5:29 Mean in the King James?
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
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 hidden hinge is that all come forth, yet resurrection opens into two sharply different outcomes: life and judgment.
THE MEANING
Death does not close your future: you come forth, and what you have done is not treated as weightless. The verse holds two outcomes in view, life and judgment, without collapsing them into one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that death makes a life’s actions disappear without consequence.
THE ROOT
ἀνάστασιν
anastasin
GROWS FROM
στα
sta
Stand; take a standing position.
The word rendered “resurrection” carries the sense of standing up. The verse first names a coming forth into standing presence, then distinguishes what follows.
ALSO GROWS
anistēmi: Rise or stand up.
ἀνίστημι
This verb shares the standing stem and makes the movement within “resurrection” audible.
stasis: A standing or position.
στάσις
It keeps the idea of standing within the word family, beneath the English word “resurrection.”
κρίσεως
kriseōs
GROWS FROM
κριν
krin
Judge, decide, or distinguish.
The Greek word rendered “damnation” is κρίσεως (kriseōs), “judgment.” Its word family includes judging and the verdict itself, giving this outcome a judicial shape while preserving the verse’s severity.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: Judge or decide.
κρίνω
This verb reveals the act carried in the noun for judgment.
kritēs: A judge.
κριτής
This branch names the one who carries out the judgment described in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Across scripture, the dead are raised or brought before God into distinct outcomes, not a single undifferentiated end.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.THE THREAD
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:The same Greek noun, ἀνάστασις (anastasis), “a standing up,” appears here as “the resurrection.” John 5:29 shows that rising opens into life or judgment; here resurrection and life meet in Jesus’ own claim.
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