What Does Acts 28:10 Mean in the King James?
Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
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
Here, honor becomes something you can carry: the travelers’ worth is shown in what they leave with.
THE MEANING
Regard takes material shape when people meet the needs in front of them. The provisions go with the travelers and sustain the next stretch of their way. The verse speaks now wherever welcome includes what is actually needed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that honor is only praise or status: here, honor arrives as needed goods placed into the travelers’ hands.
THE ROOT
ἐτίμησαν
etimēsan
GROWS FROM
τιμ-
tim-
To set a value on; to esteem or honor.
The verb translated “honoured” belongs to a word family whose sense includes value and price. The travelers’ worth is recognized not only in words, but in resources they can carry away.
ALSO GROWS
timē: Value, price, honor
τιμή
This noun names the esteem behind the honor shown to the travelers, with the added sense of assigning worth.
timios: Precious, costly, valued
τίμιος
This branch makes the link between honor and worth visible: what is honored is treated as precious.
THE PATTERN
Regard for another becomes tangible when it meets their needs along the way.
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:THE THREAD
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,The Greek word ἔντιμον (entimon, “precious”) belongs to the τιμ- (tim-, “value, esteem”) word family behind ἐτίμησαν (etimēsan, “they honored”) in Acts. In Acts, worth is shown through provisions; in Peter, the same family describes what is precious.
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