What Does John 6:37 Mean in the King James?
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
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
Coming to Jesus ends in no expulsion: the welcome is absolute.
THE MEANING
The promise speaks to your approach now: the one who comes to Jesus is not sent away. The Father gives, the Son receives, and no condition of worthiness is attached to coming. Your arrival meets welcome.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the fear that you may come to Jesus and still be rejected: the one who comes is not cast outside.
THE ROOT
ἐκβάλω ἔξω
ekbalō exō
GROWS FROM
βάλλω
ballō
To throw or cast; in this verse, the compound verb means to throw out.
“cast out” in this verse is ekbalō exō. The verb gives rejection an outside direction: the one coming to Jesus is not hurled beyond the welcome. The emphatic denial, together with the repeated out-language, makes the promise categorical.
ALSO GROWS
emballō: To throw or put into
ἐμβάλλω
This compound turns the same throwing motion inward, sharpening the contrast with being thrown outside.
apoballō: To throw away or cast aside
ἀποβάλλω
It shows how this root can describe disposal; Jesus explicitly denies that fate to the one who comes.
δίδωσιν
didōsin
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι
didōmi
To give or grant.
“giveth” in this verse is didōsin. The Father’s giving and the person’s coming belong together in the sentence: the one who arrives is already described within a gift given to the Son. The next verse joins this same giving to the promise that none of the given are lost.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: To hand over or entrust
παραδίδωμι
This compound makes the giving’s sense of entrusting visible beside the Father’s giving to the Son.
apodidōmi: To give back, render, or repay
ἀποδίδωμι
It shows the same root at work in giving something over or returning it, keeping the verse’s focus on what is given in someone’s care.
THE PATTERN
The invitation to come is met with welcome and freely given provision.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.THE THREAD
And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.The same Greek verb, δίδωμι (didōmi, “to give”), links the Father’s giving here with what the Son is given in the next verse. There, the welcome becomes a promise of keeping: none of what is given is lost, but raised.
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