What Does Luke 7:35 Mean in the King James?

But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Luke 7:35 · KJV

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

Wisdom is vindicated by what it gives birth to, not by the verdicts spoken over it.

THE MEANING

Wisdom is vindicated in the life it brings forth now. What is born from its way reveals its character, even when people misread or dismiss it. Its outcomes are the evidence.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A rejected voice is not thereby false or foolish; the measure named here is what wisdom brings forth, not whether it wins immediate approval.

THE ROOT

τέκνων

teknōn

GROWS FROM

τίκτω

tíktō

To give birth, beget, or bring forth.

The word for children belongs to the family of “giving birth” and “bringing forth.” Wisdom’s children are what its way produces, and those outcomes make its nature visible.

ALSO GROWS

téknon: Child; offspring.

τέκνον

It names what is born from a source; wisdom’s children are what its way brings into life.

tókos: Birth; offspring; increase.

τόκος

It can name what issues from a source, echoing the visible yield by which wisdom is known.

ἐδικαιώθη

edikaiōthē

GROWS FROM

δικ-

dik-

Right, just; the quality of being in the right.

“justified” in this verse is edikaiōthē. The verb says wisdom is shown to be right through its children. Its vindication comes through the lives and outcomes it produces.

ALSO GROWS

díkaios: Right; just.

δίκαιος

This word names what is shown to be true of wisdom through what it brings forth.

dikaiosýnē: Alignment; righteousness.

δικαιοσύνη

The same word family points to alignment, which wisdom’s children make visible.

THE PATTERN

Wisdom is recognized by what it brings forth; its effects disclose the nature of its source.

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 8:35 · KJVWisdom’s fruit is life and favor, making its nature visible in what it gives.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:17 · KJVWisdom is known through the character and good fruit that proceed from it.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 7:16 · KJVThe fruit reveals the nature of the source, just as wisdom’s children vindicate her.

THE THREAD

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Matthew 11:19 · KJV

Matthew gives the parallel saying and makes the dismissive verdict explicit. In both verses, wisdom is vindicated by what it brings forth, while the children reveal the nature of their source.

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