What Does John 7:50 Mean in the King James?
Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
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 verse makes the nighttime seeker and the present speaker the same man, so concealment is a beginning rather than an identity.
THE MEANING
A hidden beginning and a present voice can belong to the same person. What first approaches under cover can later speak from within the circle where it once stayed quiet.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a concealed beginning permanently disqualifies a person from speaking openly.
THE ROOT
νυκτός
nyktos
GROWS FROM
νυκτ-
nykt-
Night; νυκτός is the genitive form of νύξ, meaning “night.”
John uses the same word for night when Nicodemus first approaches Jesus (John 3:2), marking the hidden beginning of this connection. Here that beginning is named as Nicodemus speaks among his own circle, holding his concealment and his voice within one identity.
ALSO GROWS
nyx: Night.
νύξ
This is the base form of the word John uses to recall Nicodemus’s first, hidden approach.
nykterinos: Of or belonging to the night; nocturnal.
νυκτερινός
This related form keeps the same night-root visible in words describing what takes place in darkness.
THE PATTERN
An encounter that begins in private can become visible speech or action.
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.THE THREAD
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.John repeats the phrase “came to Jesus by night,” so the earlier scene is carried into this one through the same Greek word for night. The hidden beginning remains part of Nicodemus’s story, but now the verse shows him speaking among his own circle.
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