What Does John 7:43 Mean in the King James?
So there was a division among the people because of him.
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 “division” is a tear in the people’s shared fabric, not merely a difference of opinion about Jesus.
THE MEANING
Jesus’ presence brings incompatible responses into view, and the crowd’s apparent unity splits along that fault line. The verse speaks to the way one person can expose how differently people see what stands before them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that standing together means seeing the same thing: a shared crowd can hold sharply divided responses.
THE ROOT
σχίσμα
schisma
GROWS FROM
σχίζω
schizō
to split, tear, or rend
The Greek word for “division” carries the image of something torn. The crowd is not only holding different opinions; its shared surface splits under the force of what Jesus reveals.
ALSO GROWS
schizō: to split, tear, or rend
σχίζω
The verb shows the split as a tearing open, making the crowd’s division more vivid than an abstract disagreement.
schistos: split, cleft, or divided
σχιστός
This related form carries the same image of something cleaved apart, echoing the rupture among the people.
THE PATTERN
A revealing presence brings hidden differences in response into the open.
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.THE THREAD
They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.“Division” translates σχίσμα (schisma), from σχίζω (schizō), “to split or rend.” Here the related verb describes the soldiers refusing to tear Jesus’ garment, so the same root links the crowd’s rupture to a garment kept whole.
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