What Does John 18:12 Mean in the King James?
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound 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 Greek for “bound” belongs to the family of “bond,” turning the arrest from a verdict into a restraint laid on Jesus’ body.
THE MEANING
Here, power becomes physical: Jesus is taken and bound. His movement is tied down while the group around him controls the scene.
THE ROOT
ἔδησαν
edēsan
GROWS FROM
δέω
δέω (deō) means to tie or bind; the stem δε- (de-) carries that action into its word family.
“bound” in this verse is edēsan. The Greek word family places this binding beside δεσμός (desmos, bond) and δεσμεύω (desmeuō, to bind). The restraint around Jesus is named as the making of a bond, an embodied constraint that continues through the next handoff.
ALSO GROWS
desmos: bond, fetter, or chain
δεσμός
This noun from the binding family makes visible the bond implied when Jesus is bound.
desmeuō: to bind or fetter
δεσμεύω
This related verb carries the same binding action, showing that the restraint is something done to a body.
THE PATTERN
Authority makes its control physical by binding the person it has taken.
And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.THE THREAD
Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.The Greek uses another form of δέω (deō, to bind). The binding persists as Jesus passes from one authority to another; the handoff does not loosen the bond.
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