What Does Acts 17:1 Mean in the King James?
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
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 verse’s destination is not merely a city: “synagogue” means a gathering, so the route arrives among people brought together.
THE MEANING
Your movement can pass through places before it arrives among people gathered together. The verse makes arrival relational: the city is the setting, and the assembled community gives it human shape.
THE ROOT
συναγωγή
synagōgē
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
ἄγω (agō) means “bring” or “lead”; συναγωγή (synagōgē) means “gathering” or “assembly.”
English can make “synagogue” sound like only a building, while the Greek word also carries the sense of people being brought together. The verse’s destination is a community assembled.
ALSO GROWS
synagō: Gather, bring together.
συνάγω
It names the action at the heart of a synagogue: people are brought together.
agōgē: Leading, conduct.
ἀγωγή
It preserves the root’s sense of leading or guiding beneath the word for a gathering.
THE PATTERN
A gathering can become the human destination of movement.
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.THE THREAD
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.The Greek translated “gathered together” belongs to the same word family as “synagogue,” carrying the sense “bring together.” Acts names a synagogue as its destination; Matthew shows the gathered people themselves as the setting where presence is encountered.
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