What Does Acts 11:20 Mean in the King James?
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
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 good news of Jesus crosses the boundary to reach people outside the familiar circle.
THE MEANING
The message reaches beyond circles that already recognize it and speaks into an unfamiliar audience through people who have come from elsewhere. Jesus’ name carries deliverance into the announcement itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The good news belongs only among people who already share the same community.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελιζόμενοι
euangelizomenoi
GROWS FROM
ἀγγελ-
Message or announcement, carried by a messenger.
The Greek word translated “preaching” means announcing good news, and its core is shared with the word for messenger. The verse shows that message crossing a boundary with the people who carry it.
ALSO GROWS
ángelos: Messenger.
ἄγγελος
The announcement in this verse is carried by people who bring it to a new audience.
angelía: Message or announcement.
ἀγγελία
This branch reveals the message within the act of announcing: good news is something carried and delivered.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישׁע
Deliver; bring into safety and open space.
The Hebrew name behind Jesus grows from the root of deliverance. The announcement centers on a name that carries the movement from constriction into open space.
ALSO GROWS
yāšaʿ: To deliver or bring to safety.
יָשַׁע
The name in the verse carries the root action of deliverance.
yešūʿāh: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This branch names the deliverance contained in the name being announced.
THE PATTERN
Good news travels outward through people, crossing boundaries to reach a wider audience.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.THE THREAD
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Luke’s phrase “to preach the gospel” uses the Greek verb family εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō, announce good news), the same family behind “preaching” here. Luke joins that announcement to deliverance and release, revealing what the good news carries.
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