What Does Luke 10:22 Mean in the King James?
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal 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 Father is made known through the Son’s uncovering, so divine knowing is received as disclosure rather than seized as information.
THE MEANING
Everything rests in the Son’s hands as given by the Father, and the Father and Son know one another in a mutuality no one can force open. The Son makes the Father known to the one he chooses to reveal him to; you meet the Father through what the Son uncovers.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that collecting enough facts or relying on independent effort makes God fully knowable; here, knowing the Father comes through the Son’s disclosure.
THE ROOT
ἀποκαλύψαι
apokalypsai
GROWS FROM
καλύπτω
kalyptō
To cover or conceal; with ἀπό (apo), the compound means to uncover, to take the covering away.
“reveal” in this verse is apokalypsai. The Son does not add a new object for you to know; he uncovers the Father. The Greek word carries the sense of a covering being taken away, so revelation is what lets the hidden become known.
ALSO GROWS
apokalypsis: Uncovering; revelation.
ἀποκάλυψις
This noun from the same word family names the act of disclosure: what is revealed becomes visible as its covering is removed.
kalymma: A covering; a veil.
κάλυμμα
This related word makes the image concrete: the Son’s revealing removes what veils the Father from view.
THE PATTERN
The Father becomes knowable through the Son’s disclosure, so divine knowing is received through relationship rather than independently mastered.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.Luke’s “reveal” and Paul’s “hath revealed” come from the same Greek verb, ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalyptō), to uncover. Here the Son uncovers the Father; in Corinthians, God uncovers the deep things through the Spirit.
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