What Does Acts 22:13 Mean in the King James?
Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
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 command to see again and the narrator’s looking up are the same Greek verb: sight arrives already becoming recognition.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as kin before your sight opens, and you receive the ability to look up at the person before you. The verse joins restoration to recognition in the very same hour.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
An interruption in your sight does not mean sight is beyond return.
THE ROOT
ἀνάβλεψον
anablepson
GROWS FROM
βλεπ
blep
To see, to look.
The word translated “receive thy sight” is ἀνάβλεψον (anablepson, look up or see again); its answer, “I looked up,” is ἀνέβλεψα (aneblepsa, I looked up or saw again), built on the same βλέπ- (blep-, see/look) stem. English makes one sound like healing and the other like ordinary looking, while Greek makes them one movement: the command is fulfilled in the gaze.
ALSO GROWS
aneblepsa: I looked up; I saw again.
ἀνέβλεψα
The narrator’s response repeats the same verb stem as the command, showing sight restored in the very act of looking.
emblepō: Look at; gaze upon.
ἐμβλέπω
This related form directs seeing toward someone, echoing the way restored sight turns toward the brother standing there.
THE PATTERN
Restored sight is received as an opening that carries the one who was blind into seeing.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.THE THREAD
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.The verse before this says, “I could not see”; here ἀνάβλεψον (anablepson, look up or see again) is answered by ἀνέβλεψα (aneblepsa, I looked up or saw again), both from βλέπω (blepō, see/look). The same root carries the passage from inability to sight, with the change happening in the same hour.
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