What Does John 7:47 Mean in the King James?
Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
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 question turns disagreement into proof of deception before it tests what the hearers have seen.
THE MEANING
When someone hears a voice that does not fit the accepted verdict, the response can be to call the listener deceived before weighing what they heard. This question treats a changed judgment as evidence of wandering.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being labeled deceived does not prove that you have lost your way; the accusation may protect a verdict that has not been reconsidered.
THE ROOT
πλανᾶσθε
planasthe
GROWS FROM
πλαν-
plan-
To wander or stray; in this verb, to lead astray.
“deceived” in this verse is planasthe. The form here means “are you being led astray?” The root also names wandering itself, so the question frames the hearers as people who have left the path before addressing what they heard.
ALSO GROWS
planē: Wandering; error
πλάνη
It shows that what English calls deception can also be pictured as movement off course.
planētēs: Wanderer; wandering star
πλανήτης
The same root names one that wanders, making the image of being led astray concrete.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures deception and error as wandering from a way.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.THE THREAD
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?“Gone astray” uses the same Greek root, πλαν- (plan-), as “deceived” here: both can describe wandering from a way. The link leaves open what the question shuts down: whether the hearers are truly off course, or simply outside the path the speaker expects.
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