What Does John 9:12 Mean in the King James?
Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
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 man whose sight has been opened can see, yet he still does not know where Jesus is.
THE MEANING
The question asks for a location, and the answer names a real limit: “I know not.” You can experience a genuine change without yet knowing where its source is or how to find it. The verse lets that gap be spoken plainly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a change is unreal unless you can explain its source or locate it.
THE ROOT
οἶδα
oida
GROWS FROM
εἴδω
eidō
To see or behold; οἶδα is a perfect form used with the sense “know.”
The word translated “know” belongs to a root meaning “see,” holding perception and knowledge close. Here, that link sharpens the scene: the man’s sight has returned, while he still does not know where the one who healed him is.
ALSO GROWS
eidon: I saw; a past-tense form of the same root.
εἶδον
It makes the root’s connection between seeing and knowing audible beneath the English distinction.
ide: See! Behold!
ἴδε
This command to look grows from the same root, showing its direct sense of seeing.
THE PATTERN
Perception can be genuine and still partial: a person may see what has changed without knowing the whole story.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.THE THREAD
He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.The same speaker repeats οἶδα, the word behind “I know not,” now to name what he is certain of. He cannot settle who Jesus is, but he can testify to the change he sees in himself.
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