What Does Acts 28:9 Mean in the King James?
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
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
In the Greek, healing is also attending to: restoration arrives as care people can come near.
THE MEANING
When illness narrows the world, this verse keeps open the possibility of moving toward care and receiving healing. Restoration widens beyond one person as others come and are healed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that restoration is reserved for one exceptional person is undone as the verse widens to include others with illnesses.
THE ROOT
ἐθεραπεύοντο
etherapeuonto
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
therapeu-
To attend to, care for, serve; also to treat or heal.
θεραπεύω (therapeuō) can mean attend to, care for, or heal. So “were healed” carries more than a result: it also holds the nearness of someone tending those who came.
ALSO GROWS
therapeia: Care, attendance, treatment, healing.
θεραπεία
The related noun holds both care and healing in the same word-family.
therapōn: Attendant, servant.
θεράπων
This related word for an attendant makes the attentive, personal dimension of healing easier to see.
ἀσθενείας
astheneias
GROWS FROM
ἀσθεν-
asthen-
Weakness or lack of strength; illness as a state of weakness.
The word belongs to a family for weakness and being weak or ill. The verse thus shows depleted strength meeting care, alongside the more familiar sense of diseases.
ALSO GROWS
asthenēs: Weak, ill.
ἀσθενής
This adjective uses the same word-family to describe the person experiencing weakness or illness.
astheneō: To be weak, to be ill.
ἀσθενέω
The related verb names the state behind the illnesses brought for care.
THE PATTERN
Healing widens from one person’s need into care that reaches many.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.THE THREAD
There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.Both verses use θεραπεύω (therapeuō), meaning to attend to, care for, or heal. Both also pair people coming with healing, keeping the care within “were healed” visible.
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