What Does John 6:59 Mean in the King James?

These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

John 6:59 · KJV

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 word for synagogue carries the action of gathering people together, placing the teaching among a gathered people.

THE MEANING

The teaching meets you in a gathered space, where it is heard among people rather than held as private knowledge. The verse keeps teaching and assembly together: what is spoken is shared hearing.

THE ROOT

συναγωγή

synagōgē

GROWS FROM

συνάγω

synagō

To bring together; to gather.

The word translated “synagogue” grows from the verb “to gather together.” The place of teaching therefore carries gathering in its name: instruction happens among people assembled to hear.

ALSO GROWS

synagō: To gather together, bring together.

συνάγω

This verb is the seed of “synagogue” and makes the gathering motion inside the word visible.

episynagōgē: A gathering together, an assembly.

ἐπισυναγωγή

This related noun uses the same root and shows the word family still joining people together.

THE PATTERN

Instruction gathers people into shared hearing.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deuteronomy 31:12 · KJVThe people are gathered so they can hear and learn together.

And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

Mark 4:1 · KJVA multitude gathers around the teaching and becomes its shared audience.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Acts 13:15 · KJVWithin the synagogue, the gathered people are invited to hear a word of exhortation.

THE THREAD

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

John 11:52 · KJV

“Gather together” here comes from the same Greek root carried by “synagogue” in the current verse. The shared root reveals the motion inside the place-name: people who are scattered are brought together.

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