What Does John 19:41 Mean in the King James?
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
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 word for “sepulchre” carries the root of remembrance: this is a new, unused place already named as a place of memory.
THE MEANING
You see a garden where the place of crucifixion also holds a new tomb. No one has yet been laid there, and the word for tomb carries the language of remembrance. The scene holds both a new place for burial and a place named through memory.
THE ROOT
μνημεῖον
mnēmeion
GROWS FROM
μνημ-
mnēm-
memory, remembrance
“sepulchre” in this verse is mnēmeion. The word μνημεῖον grows from the language of memory: a tomb is also a memorial, a place associated with remembrance. Here that place is new and unused, so its first burial gives it a particular story to hold.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmē: memory, remembrance
μνήμη
This branch makes visible the remembrance carried within the word for tomb.
mnēmoneuō: to remember, call to mind
μνημονεύω
This verb shares the same root, linking the tomb as a place of memory with the act of remembering.
THE PATTERN
The garden frames the placing of human life and the first encounter with Jesus after his burial.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.THE THREAD
Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.John uses the same word, μνημεῖον, for the new tomb here and the tomb Mary says the Lord has been taken from. Its root carries remembrance, while the next scene turns this place of burial into the center of a new encounter.
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