What Does John 2:2 Mean in the King James?
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
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 word for “was called” belongs to the same call-family as the word for “assembly,” so the invitation gathers Jesus and his disciples into the wedding’s shared joy.
THE MEANING
Jesus is present with his disciples at a wedding, welcomed into an ordinary human celebration. The verse places sacred presence within shared joy, in the life you live now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Jesus is present only in moments of crisis or solemnity, never in ordinary celebration.
THE ROOT
ἐκλήθη
eklēthē
GROWS FROM
κλη
Call, summon, invite; klē is the Greek call-stem form within καλέω (kaleō), meaning “to call” or “invite.”
“called” in this verse is eklēthē. The invitation belongs to a word family that also names a calling and an assembly. The same language holds together being invited and being gathered.
ALSO GROWS
kaleō: to call, summon, invite
καλέω
This is the dictionary form of the call-family; ἐκλήθη is its passive form, “was called” or “was invited.”
klēsis: calling, invitation
κλῆσις
This noun carries the same κλη- stem, showing the call itself can be named as an invitation.
ekklēsia: assembly
ἐκκλησία
This word for an assembly belongs to the same call-family, where calling gathers people together.
γάμον
gamon
GROWS FROM
γαμ
Marriage or wedding; the gam- stem links the wedding with the act of marrying.
“marriage” in this verse is gamon. The word names the wedding gathering, while its family includes both marrying and the married partner. The scene holds the shared event and the relationship together.
ALSO GROWS
gameō: to marry
γαμέω
This verb shares the γαμ- stem and names the act joined to the wedding in the verse.
gametēs: husband, married man
γαμέτης
This related word names a person within the marriage bond, connecting the gathering to the lives joined there.
THE PATTERN
Marriage is both a lived bond between people and a scriptural image of shared joy.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.THE THREAD
And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.Matthew uses the same Greek call-family for guests summoned to a wedding. John shows Jesus among those gathered; Matthew makes the invitation and the response to it the focus.
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