What Does Acts 13:42 Mean in the King James?
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
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 words cross a boundary and awaken a second hunger: the Gentiles’ first hearing leaves them asking for another.
THE MEANING
The words reach beyond the people already centered in the synagogue, and the hearers respond by asking to hear them again. Their first encounter is not a closed moment; it opens into expectation for the next sabbath.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that one hearing exhausts the words or that they belong only to a closed circle: those beyond that circle ask to hear them again.
THE ROOT
παρεκάλουν
parekaloun
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaleō
The verbal base means “call” or “summon”; with παρά, it forms παρακαλέω, meaning “urge” or “appeal.”
The verb rendered “besought” is παρεκάλουν (parekaloun), from παρακαλέω (parakaleō), “urge, appeal”; its verbal base καλέω (kaleō) means “call, summon.” The related noun παράκλησις (paraklēsis), “appeal, exhortation, comfort,” appears nearby in “word of exhortation” (Acts 13:15): the hearers’ request echoes the kind of strengthening speech named earlier in the chapter.
ALSO GROWS
kaleō: Call; summon.
καλέω
The request is an active call for the words to be spoken again.
paraklēsis: Appeal; exhortation; comfort.
παράκλησις
This related noun names exhorting speech, linking the request here with the “word of exhortation” in Acts 13:15.
THE PATTERN
A word received awakens desire for a fuller hearing.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:THE THREAD
And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.“Word of exhortation” here is παράκλησις (paraklēsis), “appeal” or “exhortation,” from the same word family as παρακαλέω (parakaleō), “urge, appeal,” rendered “besought” in Acts 13:42. The Gentiles’ request to hear the words again echoes the chapter’s earlier invitation for exhorting speech.
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