What Does Luke 1:1 Mean in the King James?
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
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 things “most surely believed” are named with a Greek word of fullness: what is sure among us has been brought to full measure.
THE MEANING
Many take up the work of giving an ordered account of what has come to fullness among us. What is held as sure rests in realities taking shape within shared life, and an account lets those realities be seen together.
THE ROOT
πεπληροφορημένων
peplērophorēmenōn
GROWS FROM
πληροφορέω (plērophoreō), formed from πλήρης (plērēs, full) + φορέω (phoreō, carry)
Bring to fullness or full measure; the word can also mean fully assure or fulfill.
“most surely believed” in this verse is peplērophorēmenōn. Luke’s word can carry both the sense of fulfillment and of full assurance. Its parts evoke what is full and what is carried, so certainty here has the texture of something brought to fullness among us, not a bare opinion.
ALSO GROWS
plēroō: Fill, fulfill
πληρόω
This branch echoes the sense of realities arriving at fullness and completion.
plērēs: Full, complete
πλήρης
It shows the fullness beneath the word for what is held as sure.
phoreō: Carry, bear
φορέω
The carrying image gives the word its sense of bearing something through to completion.
THE PATTERN
What is received as real becomes shareable when it is given an account and carried forward.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.Romans uses the same Greek word-family for being “fully persuaded,” while Luke uses it for things brought to fullness among us. The shared root holds fulfillment and settled assurance together, deepening Luke’s phrase without erasing its sense of conviction.
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